Coined from Czech playwright Karel Capek ‘robot’ in 1920, was the most idyllic functional servant. In fact, robot is always dumb. On the other hand, the real multifunctional robot stayed in the seventh heaven’s state of mind. The mighty robot is far from reality. Recently however, robots have taken their prime stage of evolution.
In America, due to the e-commerce boom and social distancing, robots are vitally important. They pick items off shelves and help people pack. They even walk on the pavements slowly to deliver goods or food to the right people and doors. In nursing homes, they even help the workers to take care of elderly.
Research in 2013 about robots replacing labor, is proven irrelevant.
The fear was exaggerated. In fact, Japan and South Korea have the highest automation but they also have very strong workforces. Yale University research evokes that in Japanese manufacturing one robot unit boosted the company’s employment by 2.2% or 1.000 workers. The Bank of Korea also believed that automation might move jobs away, but it does not decrease overall vacancies.
Researchers at MIT reflect on Finnish firms and conclude that the company’s advanced technology use has led to massive hiring increase. Although robots’ existence has been prejudiced and stigmatized, robots can only do crappy jobs. Organizing, tidying, clicking barcodes, are the examples. So, when robots enter the market to replace human workers for those jobs, human then must acquire new skills and lifelong learning. This is because robots cannot perform talent, skills, analysis, or more. Robots’ evolution is huge, in the future robots will probably be human’s colleagues, said The Economist.
But the tale seems to show something else, in Capek’s play, robots revolt against their masters. In a lot of media, robots are monsters creating massive unemployment. Worse, in some films or movies, robots destroy humans and cities. The real robots however prove that those satire are highly irrelevant.
