{"id":12232,"date":"2014-09-03T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:25","slug":"five-myths-and-facts-about-robotics-technology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/five-myths-and-facts-about-robotics-technology-today","title":{"rendered":"Five Myths and Facts About Robotics Technology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"byline\">By Shahin Farshchi \u2014 IEEE Spectrum<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p>Ever faster processors, cheaper sensors, abundant open-source code, ubiquitous connectivity, and the advent of 3D printing are some of the forces behind the recent proliferation of robots. As I see things, these forces will only get stronger, and as more <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/robotics\/home-robots\/so-where-are-my-robot-servants\">robots become part of our lives<\/a>\u2014in homes, offices, factories, hospitals, and many other places\u2014we\u2019ll inevitably face challenges involving our adoption and use of robots.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers are voicing their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/23\/books\/review\/Lehrer-t.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">fears about a decline in human-human interaction<\/a>, while others warn of an irreversible and senseless loss of jobs, with <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/failing-the-third-machine-age-1883e647ba74\">robots taking over tasks that, they argue, should not be performed by machines (such as caring for the elderly)<\/a>. Trade-offs will certainly be part of our growing reliance on robotics and automation. And it will be up to us to manage these trade-offs, just as we have with other technologies such as electricity, the automobile, aviation, nuclear power, computers, and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/five-myths-and-facts-about-robotics\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shahin Farshchi \u2014 IEEE Spectrum Ever faster processors, cheaper sensors, abundant open-source code, ubiquitous connectivity, and the advent of 3D printing are some of the forces behind the recent proliferation of robots. As I see things, these forces will only get stronger, and as more robots become part of our lives\u2014in homes, offices, factories, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55513,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions\/55513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}