The Emergence of the Robotic Age

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The Emergence of the Robotic Age

Everyday technology grows more powerful and influential. As technology increases, people will see more robots in the medical field and have robots doing the jobs that people deem “robot worthy”.

The word “robot” was coined in 1921 by a Czech playright known as Karel Capek, but the idea of robots have long been around. Leonardo Da Vinci was the first man to have ever drawn out plans on how to make automaton, and he even made it. Today such miracles are being even furthered, as feats people thought impossible 50 years ago, are suddenly within our grasp.

The word robot in the Merriam Webster Dictionary is defined as “a machine that can do the work of a person and that works automatically or is controlled by a computer”. In other words, people build robots to do jobs for people.

People will soon find, that as time progresses, that people will begin to rely on new technologies, to do things for people that are simple. Though with advancing technologies comes laziness, many sicknesses and problems may be cured through robotics.

“In the past several years scientists have delivered a slew of advances in wiring prosthetic limbs directly to the brain.” Said Gary Smith. Scientists are now fitting people who have had amputated limb with new technologies. People who are paraplegics now have hope. A sort of futuristic exoskeleton will be able to help paraplegics walk again. Scientists are even thinking about making people be able to feel too, using sensors on the prosthetic limbs. Scientists tested one of the limbs by making an amputee fitted with the arm pull a grape of a vine, without squishing it, all the while being blindfolded. He was able to do it, without squishing the fruit.

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...We must remain human as we see more robots claim the jobs that we hold today.

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