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The implications of humanoid robots as laborsaving devices are more ominous than most people realize Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But it's not just artificial intelligence that needs to advance in order to enable useful humanoid robots; we also need major advancements in portable power, vision recognition, touch sensing, and even muscle control. Language detection capabilities are also desperately needed before we will see useful robots, but assuming that these technical hurdles will at some point be resolved, we will eventually end up with useful humanoid robots that can start to do some things for us around the house, around the office, around medical facilities, and other similar places.

Let's face it, if humanoid robots can flip burgers then you probably don't need to hire people to flip burgers, and there are many similar menial jobs that robots could be taught to do. It's not a stretch to imagine these machines could be programmed to clean floors and toilets, or carry objects such as supply items in a hospital or office supplies in a work environment. Robots could help with gardening, construction and, of course, security. If you have a roving robot that walks around your house or office keeping an eye on things, then you probably don't need to hire security guards to do it.

But the humanoid robots of the near future will be autonomous. These advanced robots will be able to move under their own power and they will have a goal instead of just a preprogrammed motion. In other words, they will know that the ultimate goal is to sweep the sidewalk or do the laundry or do the dishes, but getting to that goal will require lots of decision-making on the part of the robot. So these are robots that are far more capable of taking over basic human labor jobs that now employ a large number of our citizens at the lower end of the economic scale. The "My robot hurt me!

While a lot of this is theoretical, the future is not as far away as you might think, in fact, it is the demand for military robots that is driving this industry to produce usable humanoid robots faster than you might expect. Remember, it was really a military push that motivated NASA to land a man on the moon. It was national security that set off the space race, not some innocent interest in science. Likewise, it will be the military power interests that will inevitably promote more advances in robotics technology.

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