ROBOTICS

  ROBOTICS

 The robot revolution is a long-standing staple of science fiction from metropolis to the terminator, and the spread of advanced machine in recent years has done little to contradicts its seeming inevitability.

 
But before master and servant switch roles, the robots of the world need to conquer a simple task: efficiently recognizing a cat  . in 2014, took some 16000 computers running a "neural network " but this set up by Google to accomplish this feat something a toddler does by reflex. the algorithms for determining "catness " are rapidly improving.

But this distinction between thinking and calculating is a great divide that robotics engineers will need to breach before robots can truly replace humans A kid knows that all things with four legs, such as chairs, aren't cats. IBM's Watson supercomputer triumphed om the quiz show jeopardy in 2011 but it also thought turnouts the unstates .tes.  robots are incresingly movung into mpre corners of the world. one study estimated that us many as 45 percent of jobs in the united states would be elogble for robot replacement over the next 20 years.
                   


  People have worried abot being replased by machines since the start of the indystrial age . although thius has proved to be a legitimate concern in many jobs , machines and computers in genral have amlified human strength through mecanized tools , augmented human intelligence through information processing , amd extended human reach through tele comnications and remote sensing . But robots couldnt operate autonomously . they needed instrucftions a poerson to think up the process and rules for each task and adult the outcome just to be sure that the shipment from amozon.com has a book about cats in the box , not one about wood working or parakeets. the online retailer is among the major adopters of robotics and amajor advocagte for callaboration beetween human machine . at amozon s massive products warehouses , fleets of heavey lifting robots bring sheleves of products to
  a packing employee so the employees don't have to spend tim e locating the correct product .


  [ recerches in australia are building a microspoic robot that would move around in a manner similar to COILBACTERIA . the tiny machine could take a biospy from inside the human body]