Positive Impacts
The report mainly states the impact of the autonomous robots in the human life. The robotics have been the reason that the humans have been seeing the miracles becoming a certainty (Maeda et al. ,2018). The robots have helped the human to bring the technological revolution and make their lives easier. The robots are categorise in the two category: autonomous and manual. The manual robot needs the human assistance to perform work. The autonomous are the robots the bots that run on the autonomy. These robots can work without human intervention.
According to the report, which says the autonomous robots has the brought the ease and positive affects to the human life and also ease their way of living, improvise the invention and explored the unexplored. The autonomous robot have ease the complexity in human life. The workload is easier, the medical procedures, defence(Konno & Mita, 2014). There is a pro of the every con. The interdependence on this technology can have a negative side. The autonomous robots work on the human instructions. Therefore, if there are chances of development there could be the chances of the destruction as well. Through this paper, the positive and negative impacts of the development of the autonomous robot would be discussed to know which has the upper hand.
The autonomous robots works on autonomy and without human intervention. The autonomous robots are the merge of the sensory issues, intervention and adaptability of these machines without any human aid. There are four kinds of autonomous robots are developed by merging the cognitive skills, logical reasoning and Information Technology. The autonomous robots can detect location or the surroundings through sensors.
They are mainly four types of autonomous robots:
- Programmable autonomous robots: The autonomous robots that are facilitated with the codes that are actuators at each point. This are considered as first generation autonomous robots. These robots are provided with the codes that are installed to perform only one task at a time.
- Non-programmable autonomous robots: the autonomous robots are considered as Line followers. The autonomous robots are mostly mechanically handled rather than just being programmed. Used mostly in industrial constructing, factory manufacture.
- Adaptive autonomous robots: the autonomous robots that are used in field of research. These autonomous robots can adapt according to the surroundings and mostly used in spraying, finger printing. most application is shown in the factories with medical and control system
- Intelligent autonomous robots: The intelligent autonomous robots are mainly considered the best for the storage and process of the data. The robots mainly shows the property of self-sufficiency. The autonomous robots are used for military application to home appliances system.
The positive impacts have been brought in the technological era because of the autonomous robots. The autonomous robots have been the part of the human lives since 2007. It has been spreading its field in the every sector of work. From simple construction to the space flights. The alarm to the complicated medical procedure. The positive developments of these autonomous robots are discussed in details as follows.
- Productivity: the productivity of any industry is enhanced by the usage of the autonomous robots. The autonomous robots helps in better and faster results in no time. It is one time efforts taken and investment done. The productivity is outnumbered as well as the goods requirements are made without any changes. The adaptability of the autonomous robots help in keeping the work active even during adverse conditions.
- Accuracy: the autonomous robots maintain accuracy with the products or the work that have been instructed to the systems. They maintain the requirements carefully with zero case of the errors. The autonomous robots in turn save the money and increase the revenue for the industries. The autonomous robots are not just limited to industries, but also are necessary in the warfare, and space flights. The actual measurement of the distance travelled, temperature are recorded by their system and the bots act according to the data recorded.
- Safety : The autonomous robots helps in maintaining the safety of human by substituting them in risky task like heighted building construction, war fields and other dangerous task. The autonomous robots works according to the given procedure that have been given or fed in the system. With medical advancement and merging information technology to feed the instruction to the system. The complexity in the surgery can be fulfilled. It can be used under hazardous conditions(Guitron, Guha, & Rus,2017)
- Savings: the autonomous robots provides a great amount of savings reducing the workforce and increasing the magnitude of the products. The better quality and better quantity helps the industry to flourish its business. The autonomous robots enhance the waste management by fewer errors regarding any project or product. Saves money by reducing the risks of accidents and using fewer materials.
Design and Construction:
In the fast moving pace of 21 century, it is a necessity to maintain a robotized and upgraded technology in the market-oriented environment. The automation have aided the field of construction from the first step to the last. The design is aided by the automated bots to create the 3D printing of the models, blueprints that needs to follow in order to construct a building. These bots analyse the initial condition of the site, its surrounding to know whether a construction is possible or not. The bots are integrated with several devices like barometer, auto meter, thermometer and other devices that could analyse the site and shows the possibility of the construction in that area.
Design and Construction
In mining, earthworks and road construction needs the partial automation and this is aided through the computer aided manufacturing. The computer aided manufacturing helps in maintaining basic and adequate proportions of the materials to be used while construction and aids in the hazardous cases by substituting staff with the automated machine in risky or hazardous cases. The automated robots can help in prefabricating the materials according to the requirements. It has helped in bringing the idea or the architecture of any project to reality. Automated robots makes complex design to be possible in reality(Menendez et al. 2018)
Science and research: Automated robots have expanded the science and technology way beyond human vision. They have opened opportunities the numerous possibilities to question and find something. There is nothing saved from the eyes of technology. The automated bots, the computerised technology finds the answers from the roots. The exponential growth with super computer ease the complex calculation, finds new from the unexplored place, which was once beyond possibility(Butun, Morgera & Sankar,2014). A. The automation have provided the human to create invention like auto pilot cars, the virtual reality and cyborg. The automated robots have been used for space research as well. The bots have been used find the use in the medical research and find the cure of the inevitable disease. The bots help in finding new species that have been not been discovered yet. With the help of the autonomous robots, there would be less threat to human lives, since the adaptive robots can be used to research on the fields that are beyond the human capabilities like undiscovered world of the ocean.
Medicine: the medical field has been upgrading for a real long time. There are advancement taking place has been aided by the autonomous robots from endoscopy to the laser treatments. The bots aids the medical advancement like complexity in surgeries, it detects the medical situation that are not been perceived by the humans.
Hazardous situation: the hazardous situation are faced by autonomous robots just in case to minimise the risk of live of humans. The bots like Hamzat robots work on the fields that involves nuclear reactor. The bots will help in building better security of the lives since they are unaffected with the radiation or the exposure to the toxic chemicals( Mead & Matari?,2017).
The autonomous robots do the chemical plants, the nuclear plants, and the oil refinery that has hazardous waste that could adversely affect the human life.
Science and Research
Domestic Purposes: the autonomous robots having voice controls, auto sensors aid household appliances. The automated bots help in the building the switching circuits, the kitchen appliances, The domestic purposes aided with these automated bots makes the daily lives of human easier. The intelligent system and the self-adjusting bots adjust themselves according to the need of the humans (Wood, 2016).
Transport: the automated vehicles with autopilot have ease the transport facility. The automated bots have the sensors that could detect the obstacle in the path and safe drive the vehicle. The automobile and GPS aid these bots to know the exact location. The temperature and the geographical structure of the route, the exact location. The airplane uses the autopilots to handle the planes for some time.
Numerous benefits are delivered by the automated systems. There are negative impacts that sometimes outcast the benefits of the automated bots.
- Cost maintenance: the automated bots might have made life much easier and simpler. The fact that cannot be denied is that there is a lot of money spent on the pre investment for the installation. The maintenance and up gradation cost much. It is not affordable to all the class of the society (Konno& Mita, 2014). The automated systems needs the proper servicing once in the while. The automated system will always need a proper surrounding to be established in accordance with the organization. The training regarding these automated bots to the stakeholder of the employees. The proper services of the automated system is quite important for the proper functioning and desired outputs of the organization. The automated system have to be aided with proper security frame in order to minimize threats persisted in the organization ( Reichardt, Föhst, & Berns,2015).
- Cyber security and threat issues:
The automated robots needs proper internet and software aids to enhance the smart technologies like GPS, wireless mobility may make the systems prone to the security threats. The software application and web applets are the essential parts of the autonomous robots. This make it to face the vulnerability regarding the software and the internet facilities. Enhanced automation is highly prone to malware and the security threats. The system without the security framework is highly prone to the intruder attacks (Bartneck & Forlizzi, 2014). The storage and process of the data is highly crucial to maintain the operation that have been entrusted with the system. Any changes or unauthorised can damage the organization abruptly.
Therefore, the digital security regarding these bots should be highest priority. The codes of the programmable bots should always be encrypted and the keys should be only shared with the authorised personnel. There must be an extra team of people who are trained under the network security to check the internal and external data breach that can within and outside the respective organization. The proper security must help in the better performance of these bots with ensured security is one of the issues that comes under the high maintenance. The digital security is still developing and it is next to impossible to eradicate the threats completely.
- Reduced flexibility: The programmable automated robots may have been producing the efficient goods in less time. We have the increased productivity of any industrial organization. However, they have a very limited scope of them in the organization there is no cost management, one bot is limited to one work at a time. There is the constant percentage of the production by these automated bots. There is limited scope of the work that is done by the bots, which can make the work quite slow. There must be advancement in their system to support multi-tasking. Since installing different bots for different work might cost a huge revenue for the company or industry to maintain each bot for specific work. The problem lies with programmable bots that has to be reprogrammed in accordance with the task. There is a constant need of updating and up gradation of the software(Brugali& Gherardi,2016).
- Anxiety and insecurity issues
This is an agreeable point that the humanoid bots are being the substitute of the human workforce. These android and humanoid bots have faster efficiency, lesser risk and more productivity than the human force. The anxiety of being replaced will obviously threaten the employment that was one leaded by the work force. The organization that have been aided by the robotic or humanoid workforce have lesser the number of employees that was once had the jobs(Springer, Pugliese & Marocco,2015). With the dependence of the technology and replacing bots over humans is sweeping the large number of jobs and this could lead to the financial crisis of the individual that have been practicing that job before.
Medicine
Lack of exposure: Since the automated bots are so overpriced, that it could not be have been afforded by all the class of the society. There is still many levels of the society that have been untouched regarding the knowledge of these systems (Pillai, Ferraro& Matuszek, 2018), there must be an even exposure about these automated systems. The people must know a proper training how to use the automated system and bots before their actual applications (Butun, Morgera & Sankar, 2014). The proper knowledge must be provided to the stakeholders so that there is no malfunction of the autonomous machineries. The proper exposure to the technology should be given on the regular basis to the stakeholders of the organization and the society.
Reduced opportunities: the autonomous robots are replacing a large number of jobs that was first done by humans. The proper efficiency and the intelligent sensor can even work beyond capability. The autonomous robots have been replacing the human workforce in every field which in turned have reduced employments from shopping malls to the industry. The drastic reduction of the employment have also affected the economy drastically. The loss of economy can be the huge setback for the company or any organization.
Conclusion
The report mainly throws light upon the autonomous robots development to be beneficial or hazardous for the humans. The dependence on the humanoids have been started in year 2007 since then the robots have been a part of our daily lives. In this article, the overview of the autonomous bots have been discuss which discuss the types, definition and function of the bots. The second part mainly discusses the key features that are provided by these autonomous robots. The positive impacts and the application discusses the benefits and the advantages of these bots in fields of construction, risks, science, and medicine. A brief description helps in supporting the findings of both positive and negatives application of these bots. The negative side also discuss the consequences and the problems that could be faced regarding the practical use and implication of the overuse of this technology. The suggestive measure included with the negative impact gives the idea how to prevent such situation
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