Reference
Eric Spitznagel, The new wave of robots for sale is aimed squarely at the office market. Retrieved Jan, 14, 2011, from http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_04/b4212069774202.htm
Summary
In this article, the author describes some new and multifunctional robots there are coming out on the world. Although it was not a new idea and more, also it still was a big problem for human. The global economy has been getting very bad in these few years, more and more people can’t get a job, and now, the problem is getting much worse, because the robots can replace what the human do, which includes, sending mails to the different place; picking up a coffee in the office; and cleaning up in one’s room. But some professional engineers still believed it would not happen, because the technology developing can make more and more jobs.
Reaction
My major is Mechanical Engineering, so I was very interested in reading about different kinds of technology developing. After I read this article, it made me feel that choosing this major was correct, because a lot of jobs might be replaced by the robot in the future, but the Mechanical Engineers would not. Fortunately, they need more Mechanical Engineers to create and fix the robots.
In the article, the author described how many people worry that their jobs would be replaced by the robot. In my opinion, this would not happen, because robots are only a dispassionate machine which helps the people to solve some problems, they don’t have feeling, and they can’t be friend with you; but humans are totally different, they have emotion and feeling, their work efficiency might be weaker than the robots, but you can feel and talk to them, it is not like the robots, just put the data in their brain.
So I believe, robots widely be used around the world in the future would not affect human’s normal life, just can make our life much easier.
