By Siddharth Singh, 11th September, 2015
The automation of the industrial line has been going on for long and is projected to speed up very rapidly in the coming years. The demand for human labour has reduced in several high technological industries as a result of this. What is a new trend, however, is the stepping out of robots from the factories into a world where they are more likely to be seen and heard by the public (or rather, become an invisible backdrop which we will barely notice).
The prospect of an entirely automated taxi industry has already spooked drivers. Now, robot technology has evolved enough to lay bricks, threatening yet another “unskilled” form of employment. (“Unskilled” is in quotes because it is a terribly unfair word to use. Let’s see a neurosurgeon lay bricks better than an experienced brick-layer).
Engineers have built a robot that lays “1000…
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