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Our topic on robotic advancements in our lives is important because it will change our lives. With advancements we made we can have robots do jobs that normally humans do and that would cost less over time and get the job done faster and almost uninterrupted. They could make our lives easier with miniscule tasks such as cleaning like the technology we have now already does. With robotics in our lives people have a few concerns about it. The concerns are they could be hacked, they could have bugs, and people would depend too much on them. If the robots are hacked it could release things that the person could not get out of or people could use it to hurt other people if the robot has a possible capability of doing so. Bugs in the system could interfere with what work it could do and in return could also hurt someone as well. If people become to dependant on robots and then for a reason they couldn’t use the technology for a reason they would not know what to do because they depended on the robot. What we learned from these articles is how far we have advanced from the part into this new technological age. Also we learned that even though these machines can be very helpful to everyone it can also be dangerous if things go wrong. The part of our topic that I found the most interesting was the advancements in medical robots. The medical advancements can help save lives and perform experiments without human error as a fatal mistake. What I found shocking was how the possibilities are endless with what robotics can do for our live, such as robotic nurses, waste removal systems, security cameras that can contact the police, and countless more. My opinion of our topic is for robotics because I believe they will benefit us in many ways, but the downside is they are taking jobs and replacing human workers which will cause problems.  The increasing role in robotics will definitely become a larger part in future generations, as technology advancements are being made and we learn more about how robots work. The possibilities are unlimited to how robotics will be able to benefit the future and the world around us.

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1.) Robots can help eliminate human error and protect the lives of workers.
2.) Robotics can help make our lives easier, but it can also be dangerous.
3.) Technology is rapidly increasing each year.

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Video: Robot named Atlas showing off its technology

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Video: Robot named Atlas showing off its technology

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WHO: Robots
WHAT:
--The future of smart recycling is looking bright with waste-sorting robots.
--Security cameras that see the crime, while onboard a mobile surveillance robot armed with facial recognition technology that can share information immediately with other nearby robotic cameras- all programmed to pursue suspects to keep them in sight.
--Patient care can be perfected in intricate surgeries or procedures with the use of bio-robotics.
--The use of robots in potential hazardous situations, like construction, can prevent human error and any injuries.
WHEN: October 17, 2017
WHY: This story is important because it shows multiple kinds of modern robots in progress that will revolutionize tasks like innovating waste management, surveillance, patient care, and navigating dangerous areas.
WHERE: No specific region, all throughout the world
CONNECTIONS: Connects the progress of robotics in the world and how it helps us.

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M achines have been a significant part of human reality for a long time. However, it was the industrial revolution that marked a major breakthrough in the adoption of automated machines or robots. Since the introduction of robotics, work has been significantly shared between man and machine. And, as robots become more technologically advanced and autonomous, they will operate alongside humans in increasingly collaborative ways.

From Obedient Servants to Efficient Co-workers

Today, in the era of omnipresent technology, robotics has- in both obvious and latent capacities- become a big part of our collective lives. Robots are employed for their intelligence, precision and endless energy, to perform tasks seamlessly and productively, that when performed by humans has a tendency to develop imperfections, thanks to the oft-repeated 'human error' and an individual's tendency to be bored from monotonous and repetitive work. While robots have been proving themselves to be ideal 'employees', the science of robotics has been changing lives proactively. Listed herein are top 5 ways in which robotics has revolutionized our existence on planet earth.

1) AI-powered robots are innovating waste management

Populated by intricate networks of high-speed conveyor belts carrying garbage, modern recycling centers use sophisticated sensors to sort plastic from aluminum and paper. While this technology may modernize waste sorting, it is currently not nimble and smart enough to finish the job. However, the future of smart recycling is looking bright with waste-sorting robots. Spider-like robotic arms, guided by artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated cameras are competent enough to run municipal recycling facilities more efficiently and profitably.

2) Keeping an eye on suspects through surveillance robots

When normal security cameras capture somebody leaving a suspicious package at a bus station, an individual examining the camera feeds may, if they act quick enough, be able to coordinate with an officer on the ground to follow the culprit before he dodges out of the camera's field of vision. Commendable, yet not efficient. However, in the future, this job will be more effectively performed by surveillance robots.

The future is about security cameras that see the crime, while onboard a mobile surveillance robot armed with facial recognition technology that can share information immediately with other nearby robotic cameras- all programmed to surveil and pursue suspects to keep them in sight. The latest advances in AI and other disruptive technologies will certainly make a big impact on the quality of life and security of people, by building efficient surveillance robots.

3) Patient care perfected with medical robotics

From personal assistants that can individualize patient care to microbots that scrape plaque from arteries, medical robots are slowly yet surely transforming the face of the healthcare industry. Medical robots play a pivotal role in performing compound tasks that demand immense attention to every detail, as one wrong move may lead to disability or death. These robots aren't just part of sci-fi movies anymore; they are already deployed in healthcare industries with products ranging from bio-robotics to telepresence, surgical robotics, and many other automated machines.

4) Smart manufacturing with industrial robots

In the era of industrial revolution, the manufacturing sector is smartening up with advanced technologies. In this context, robotics is playing an important role in automating and streamlining the operations of varied manufacturing units. Programmed to ensure that production lines do not suffer from bottlenecks and are churning out defect-free products, industrial robots have found wide application in a number of varied manufacturing units. These robots trim-down the chances of product failure and reduce additional expenditures.

5) Robots can take charge in potentially hazardous environments

Human workers are fragile. They cannot work safely and efficiently in situations that are deemed potentially hazardous. Thus, for many years, an assortment of industries has been using robots to navigate dangerous areas without exposing their humans to such extreme and variable conditions. Several industrial environments exist wherein material handling would subject human resources to abnormal stress. Automated robotics, besides increasing precision, quality, and productivity, can also help out with operations that are housed in extreme conditions.

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Top 5 Ways in Which Robotics Has Changed our Lives

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M achines have been a significant part of human reality for a long time. However, it was the industrial revolution that marked a major breakthrough in the adoption of automated machines or robots. Since the introduction of robotics, work has been significantly shared between man and machine.

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WHO: Robots
WHAT: Different types of robots used in modern medicine
-Da Vinci is gives the doctors to remote control set of surgery tools with incredible precision, using a joystick-like device.
-"Robot nurses" can do simple tasks to allow nurses to focus on more difficult tasks, such as enable patients to  place their hand on the robot and it will automatically locate the veins, insert the needle and take the required amount of blood.
-Robots created by Anybots efficiently takes care of patients at their home without needing to contact their doctors.
-Exoskeleton augmentations can be placed on our body and form an exoskeleton that can enable paralyzed people to move and rehabilitate them. These are extremely expensive to make and are still under construction.
WHEN: June 21, 2017
WHY: This shows the wide range of uses robotics has in the medical field and how they can help patients.
WHERE: No specific place
CONNECTIONS: Connects the progress of robotics in the world and how it helps us.

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With each passing year, medical robots manage to advance with incredible pace, enabling doctors and patients to work closely with them.

From the moment first science fiction authors imagined robotic beings, we became interested in creating them. While today many are worried that their introduction will cause massive reduction of human workforce, others are able to see the positives of their adoption, and especially in medical robots! After all, machines do not need to sleep, eat, get rested, be sick, have prejudices against other people, and can be resistant to harsh working environments where human workers would have trouble to spend prolonged periods of time.

While some of the early examples of working robots have been produced in crude and carefully controlled manner, advances in technology, modern healthcare, and telehealth have enabled engineers and scientist to create machines who have the ability to showcase "human touch" when handling various tasks. Such modern medical robots represent a clear advantage to medical professionals and patients who can use them to achieve better and more accessible care.

Types of Medical Robots

Medical robots are today being made in many form factors, from big machines that can perform a single task without the oversight of medical professionals, to fully functional moving robots that can help elderly in some of their daily activities. So, let us find out tasks do medical robots perform?

Surgical robots

Any type of surgery requires exquisite precision, which is one of the reasons why even highly medical professionals can appreciate the help that modern robotic solutions can give them. One of the best modern examples of this comes in the form of robots created by the company daVinci, which give the ability to doctors to remotely control set of surgery tools with incredible precision. By simply sitting in a chair, looking at the screen and controlling two 3D sensing joysticks, surgeons can enter into the patient body with an array of multi-functional tools that give them greater reach, flexibility, precision and ease of use that all enable them to create minimal incisions that will require less post-operative recovery time.

Robot nurses

Today, nurses are responsible for doing wide array of tasks that will in the future be released to robots. One of the best examples of this is the process of taking blood from patients. Newly developed solutions can enable patients to simply place their hand on the robot and he will automatically locate the veins, insert the needle and take the required amount of blood. The presence of these kinds of medical robots will enable hospital staff to focus more of their energy on other tasks that require human decision-making skills and empathy. This will be a great help for nurses because they are most often overwhelmed by a number of daily tasks (many of them very repetitive) that they need to manage without any mistakes.

Home care robots

While it is true that robots are great for repetitive tasks, they can also be utilized for remote patient care. For example, medical robots created by the company Anybots Int can enable caretakers to easily check up on their remote patients utilizing telepresence robots that can move through patients home. This enables faster, more efficient and accessible care, without the need for patients to spend money and time each time they need to contact their doctors or caretakers.

Of course, this type of care also attracts a fair amount of criticism regarding patient privacy and security. Manufacturers of these robots are required to create strict hardware and software measures that would prevent anyone who does not have the authorization to access these robots. With proper safeguards, medical robots of this type will undoubtedly improve the lives of patients and their caretakers.

Telemedicine solutions

Technically speaking, medical robots are not only devices that look like traditional "robots". Medical professionals view any kind of device that can help them achieve desired effects to be part of this field. For example, telemedicine networks. They can help medical personnel to reach patients who are living outside the working range of medical facilities, which can be extremely helpful to patients who live in rural areas, areas where medical help requires too much time to arrive or in areas that have experienced some kind of emergency where too many patients require medical attention. Best yet, to achieve telemedicine connection, on both ends of internet connection (at patients and clinicians end) are needed only a modern tablet or personal computer.

Exoskeleton augmentations

Robotic equipment does not need to be assembled into standalone form. It can also be placed on our body and forming an exoskeleton that can enable paralyzed people to move and walk, rehabilitate stroke and spinal injury patients, and even enable healthy people to more easily manage to lift heavy weights or walking large distances. While they can introduce many positive effects, today they remain difficult and expensive to produce, with many types of them requiring onboard power which makes them usable only during short periods of time. In the future, we can expect many regulatory changes that will try to put limits (and minimize misuse) on this field of medical robots, and possibly change the way insurance companies view these devices.

Supply chain robots

Robots can be sensitive to their movements and very expensive for manufacture, but when needed, they can be very durable, fast and able to overtake humans in tasks that we would consider too dangerous. Since they can survive in harsh environments, robots are today being built to augment rescue efforts, to be used in chemical or radiation invested environment and more.

They are also learning to be better and better at traversal over harsh terrain or aerial flight. One of the useful potential use case scenarios is flying medical drones who can deliver to patients their required medication, or even augment search and rescue efforts.

Disinfectant robots

One area in which medical robots will most likely find a good and long work hours are in the field of disinfection. Robots are not susceptible to various health hazards such as poisoning and long-term issues connected with the connection with various chemicals. Additionally, patients themselves are in danger of becoming infected during their stay in hospitals. According to some studies, one in every 25 patients in the US suffers an infection while staying in hospitals, and one of nine of those patients dies. Since these hospital-induced infections are costing the US Medical Industry over $30 billion dollars each year, an introduction of any tool that can help hospitals to disinfect rooms from any possible disease or contamination is welcomed with opened arms. One of such disinfectant medical robots is Texas-made Xenex Robot who uses high-intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect hospital rooms quickly and efficiently. This approach has been linked with drastic reduction of hospital-acquired infections.

Mini robots

Robots come in all shapes and sizes. In recent years, medical engineers have devised a plan for the creation of small capsule-sized devices that patient can ingest. When inside, these small robots unfold themselves, allowing technicians to control them using magnetic fields and patch up internal wounds inside stomach itself. When the work is complete, robots folds itself together back into capsule form, enabling the patient to safely expel it away. In addition to this innovative project, many other medical mini-robots that can travel through our body are currently being devised.

Pharma dispenser robots

Heavy lifting, repetitive tasks, and easily automated tasks are those that will soon surely be relegated to our robotic friends. But as time goes on, machine learning and AIs have become more and more capable, being able to sift through an incredible amount of medical data and medical recommendations. Very soon, they will be able to make precise treatment recommendations, after which patients will be faced with Pharma dispenser robots - an ATM machines that will dispense them their medication. Fulfilling prescriptions is one of the areas of healthcare that can be greatly improved by automatization. This will enable pharmacists to have more time to participate in tasks such as providing patients practical advice, educating them about preventive measures, and making sure that patients are receiving proper care and empathy during their treatment.

Companion robots

The quality of healthcare can be achieved not only with direct medical records but also increase the quality of life. Having a pet or a social partner can treat certain mental health issues and alleviate loneliness. Robotic pets have tried to enter this field for years now, and while some only try to emulate the appearance and movements of pets, others are also augmented with advanced hardware such as touch sensors, microphone, cameras, and light AI capabilities that can facilitate light conversations. They can not only provide entertainment but can also remind you about your medication, doctor meeting schedules, perform basic health monitoring or provide treatment timings.

A word from Telehealther

As the capabilities of medical robots become more and more advanced, the get the chance to become more and more influential and transform the world of medicine as we know it. But to achieve so, these robots will have to get support from mainstream media, which is something that many doubt they will get.

Here at Telehealther you can remain in contact with the world of digital health care, telehealth, medical robot news and much more.

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Who -Robots
What- This article is about an Uber car that has killed a pedestrian and then Uber suspending is driverless cars program. They might think it could have been a bug in the system but they are fully cooperating with the authorities.
When-March 20, 2018
Where-Tempe, Ariz Arizona
Why-This is an important story because it even though technology is helping improves our lives it can also be dangerous.

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Uber Suspends Driverless-Car Program After Pedestrian Is Killed

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An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in the first known fatality involving an autonomous vehicle, an accident that could stir regulators to action and damage the public perception of the young industry.

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What- In this article it talks about how a construction company is testing out humanless construction equipment.tgey are sofar only using it to level ground and surveying land for jobs and nothing else. They started to use automatic equipment Because they are having trouble finding skilled workers to do jobs. Using these robots is safer and faster that having people do they jobs and lessen human error.
When-March 24, 2018
Where-San Francisco, California
Why- In San Francisco they are starting to replace robots with humans to do construction work such as leveling ground and surveying land and it shows what type of possibilities could happen in the robot industry.

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SAN FRANCISCO - As a teenager working for his dad's construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.

Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup that's developing technology to allow bulldozers, excavators and other construction vehicles to operate themselves.

"The idea behind Built Robotics is to use automation technology to make construction safer, faster and cheaper," said Ready-Campbell, standing in a dirt lot where a small bulldozer moved mounds of earth without a human operator.

The San Francisco startup is part of a wave of automation that's transforming the construction industry, which has lagged behind other sectors in technological innovation.

Backed by venture capital, tech startups are developing robots, drones, software and other technologies to help the construction industry to boost speed, safety and productivity.

Autonomous machines are changing the nature of construction work in an industry that's struggling to find enough skilled workers while facing a backlog of building projects.

"We need all of the robots we can get, plus all of the workers working, in order to have economic growth," said Michael Chui, a partner at McKinsey Global Institute in San Francisco. "As machines do some of the work that people used to do, the people have to migrate and transition to other forms of work, which means lots of retraining."

Workers at Berich Masonry in Englewood, Colorado, recently spent several weeks learning how to operate a bricklaying robot known as SAM. That's short for Semi-Automated Mason, a $400,000 machine that is made by Victor, New York-based Construction Robotics. The machine can lay about 3,000 bricks in an eight-hour shift - several times more than a mason working by hand.

SAM's mechanical arm picked up bricks, covered them with mortar and carefully placed them to form the outside wall of a new elementary school. Working on a scaffold, workers loaded the machine with bricks and scraped off excess mortar left behind by the robot.

The goal, said company president Todd Berich, is to use technology to take on more work and keep his existing customers happy. "Right now I have to tell them 'no' because we're at capacity," he said.

Bricklayer Michael Walsh says the robot lessens the load on his body, but he doesn't think it will take his job. "It ain't going to replace people," Walsh said.

The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers isn't too concerned that robots will displace its members anytime soon, according to policy director Brian Kennedy.

"There are lots of things that SAM isn't capable of doing that you need skilled bricklayers to do," Kennedy said. "We support anything that supports the masonry industry. We don't stand in the way of technology."

The rise of construction robots comes as the building industry faces a severe labor shortage.

A recent survey by the Associated General Contractors of America found that 70 percent of construction firms are having trouble finding skilled workers.

"To get qualified people to handle a loader or a haul truck or even run a plant, they're hard to find right now," said Mike Moy, a mining plant manager at Lehigh Hanson. "Nobody wants to get their hands dirty anymore. They want a nice, clean job in an office."

At his company's mining plant in Sunol, California, Moy is saving time and money by using a drone to measure the giant piles of rock and sand his company sells for construction.

The autonomous quadcopter can survey the entire 90-acre site in 25 minutes. Previously, the company hired a contractor who would take a whole day to measure the piles with a truck-mounted laser.

The drone is made by Silicon Valley-based Kespry, which converts the survey data into detailed 3-D maps and charges an annual subscription fee for its services. The startup also provides drones and mapping services to insurance companies surveying homes damaged by natural disasters.

"Not only is it safer and faster, but you get more data, as much as ten to a hundred times more data," said Kespry CEO George Mathew. "This becomes a complete game changer for a lot of the industrial work that's being accomplished today."

At Built Robotics, Ready-Campbell, the company's founder and CEO, envisions the future of construction work as a partnership between humans and smart machines.

"The robots basically do 80 percent of the work, which is more repetitive, more dangerous, more monotonous," he said. "And then the operator does the more skilled work, where you really need a lot of finesse and experience."

Built Robotics recently used its automated bulldozer - retrofitted with sensors and autonomous driving technology - to grade the earth on a construction site in San Jose. The project allows the startup to both test its technology and generate some revenue.

"I'm very excited about where autonomous machines could be used in our industry," said Kyle Trew, a contractor who worked with Built Robotics on the San Jose project. "Hopefully I can use this as a tool to get an edge on some of my competitors."

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Robots break new ground in construction industry

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SAN FRANCISCO - As a teenager working for his dad's construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.