Robot Impacts Economic, Social, and Educational

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Robot ImpactsEconomic, Social, and Educational

• TED 384
• Computer Applications in Industry (Robotics
  Education)

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Economic Impacts

• Total world wide sales
• 126,700 units
• World total stock of operational industrial
  robots
• 923,000 units
• 2005 world market surge 30
• Average life expectancy 12-15 years

http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Economic Impacts
http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Economic Impacts
http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Economic Impacts
Selected Actual Annual Robot Installations Note
2004-05 installations for U.S. report includes
Canada, and Mexico
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Economic Impacts
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Economic Impacts
http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Economic Impacts
http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Economic Impacts
http//www.ifr.org/statistics/keyData2005.htm
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Educational Impacts
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Social Impacts

• Man-Machine Interactions
• Question 1
• If in the future machines have the ability to
  reason, be self-aware and have feelings, then
  what makes a human being a human being, and a
  robot a robot?
• Responses from the experts
• http//www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html

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Social Impacts

• Man-Machine Interactions
• Question 2
• If you could have a robot that would do any task
  you like, a companion to do all the work that you
  prefer not to, would you? And if so, how do you
  think this might affect you as a person?
• Responses from the experts
• http//www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html
  

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Social Impacts

• Man-Machine Interactions
• Question 3
• Are there any kind of robots that shouldnt be
  created? Or that you wouldnt want to see
  created? Why?
• Responses from the experts
• http//www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html
  

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Social Impacts

• Man-Machine Interaction
• Question 4
• Automation and the development of new
  technologies like robots is viewed by most people
  as inevitable. But many workers who lose their
  jobs consider this business practice unfair. Do
  you think the development of new technologies,
  and their implementation, is inevitable? What, if
  anything, should we as a society do for those
  people who lose their jobs?
• Responses from the experts
• http//www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html

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• For more information on the impacts of robotics,
  go to http//www.roboticsonline.com

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