Rule of the Robots

With driverless planes and cars already in the skies and streets soon we’ll just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Robots were once exclusively the stuff of science fiction. But today those tales of the future where super-intelligent humanoids take over human positions seem closer than ever to coming true. With robots already making industries more efficient daily life easier and even providing child and elderly care are people going to become obsolete?

At Amazon’s packing warehouse in DuPont Washington robots are the musclemen of the operation. 

Thousands of bright orange electronic worker bees roam a facility the size of 59 football fields scurrying this way and that to find the products to fulfill your latest order. The “Kiva” robots look rather like oversized robotic vacuum cleaners but are much more capable: they can lift 750-pound palettes of merchandise navigate their way along robot highways bring their load to a human sorter and then go happily off to their next assignment. 

And they never ask for a coffee break or a raise.