Also making the case was Drew Greenblatt, the widely quoted president and owner of Marlin Steel, a Baltimore manufacturer of steel products that has managed to expand and add jobs by deploying robots and other machines to increase worker productivity.
His co-founder and OpenRov CEO, David Lang says that robots are machines that can sense and actuate.
With facial characteristics, better intonation, programmed responses to our motions and words, robots now are machines that play on our instincts to communicate and connect.
One-dimensional, repetitive work is exactly what computers, robots and other machines are best at--and what human workers are poorly suited to and almost uniformly despise.
It is widely agreed that the best way to do this is to bring in more robots, more machines and a greater degree of automation to help speed up production, and workers in the car industry have had to become much more flexible in their attitudes to work.
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Even if the delicate digital hardware running these machines keeps going, and even if they are the smartest roving robots this side of Mars, navigating through the scrub, dust and rock of the Mojave desert represents a complex challenge.
It is a menagerie of home-constructed machines including boats, planes, architectural constructions, and prize-winning robots.
As robots advance into the service industries they are starting to look less like machines and more like living creatures.
Using machines not made for such conditions was "always a compromise", he said, and better robots were needed.
The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.
Scientist are creating a new generation of "soft" machines that can change their shape and size, move in ever more agile ways and even split themselves into smaller robots.
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