Social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.

社交机器人将会更像是人类的伙伴，而不仅仅是工具。

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Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way.

社交机器人将以一种更人性化的方式把技术带到日常世界。

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But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.

但奥士博这款机器人跟其他社交机器人一样，不是为了取代职工，而是为了与其他员工一起工作。

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Klinenberg offers many proposals for dealing with such eventualities, some reasonable (he suggests better funding programs to provide the elderly with caretakers), a few quixotic (he has real hopes for social robots).

NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

Harvesting asteroids, creating a radically transparent virtual world state and replacing workers with intelligent robots are all very well, but unless our big tech companies recognize their social responsibilities, I fear that our real future could be as disturbing as the science fictional one presented in Ridley Scott's blockbuster.

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" What's more, while the research hasn't even begun yet, one of the professors involved sees it as nothing short of a milestone, saying that "the outcome of the research will define the scientific and technological requirements for the design of humanoid robots able to develop complex behavioural, thinking and communication skills through individual and social learning.

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