Bye Bye Jobs!

"I am here for a job interview, all I need is power and i will work 24/7"

This page is going to open your minds to the new age. Don’t sit there and say to yourself it ain’t happening, IT IS, NOW !!

A technology revolution is fast replacing human beings with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. Already, millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole work categories and job assignments have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared. When Ford started selling the Model T in 1909, the industrialized automotive industry was born. This new industry eventually created millions of new jobs, where have the gone, nowhere, they have just been replace with robots. Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. More than 800 million human beings are now unemployed or underemployed in the world. That figure is likely to rise sharply between now and the turn of the next century as millions of new entrants into the workforce find themselves without jobs.

We cannot stop the evolution of robotics, and in the not to distant future, nearly every job will not be a problem for the many thousands of purpose built machines built for the many thousand of jobs, “their will be no need to argue with the waiter, as it won’t respond to criticism, and it will be able to replay exactly what you ordered, therefore the robot who cooked you meal has only done what you ask for”.

Robots taking jobs

The conventional wisdom says that the economy will create 50 million new jobs to absorb all of the workers who are displaced from their jobs by robots. But that raises two important questions:

What will those new jobs be?
-They won't be in manufacturing -- robots will hold all the manufacturing jobs.
-They won't be in the service sector (where most new jobs are now) -- robots will work in all the restaurants, retail stores and convenience stores.
-They won't be in transportation -- robots will be driving everything.
-They won't be in: security (robotic police, robotic firefighters) the military (robotic soldiers)entertainment (robotic actors and stuntmen) medicine (robotic doctors, nurses, pharmacists, counsellors, caregivers) construction (robotic construction workers) aviation (robotic pilots, robotic air traffic controllers) office work (robotic receptionists, call centres and managers) research (robotic scientists, robotic inventors) education (robotic teachers and computer-based training) programming or engineering (outsourced to India at one-tenth the cost) farming (robotic agricultural machinery) etc., etc.

We are assuming that the economy is going to invent an entirely new category of employment that will absorb half of the working population.

Why isn't the economy inventing those new jobs now? Today there are millions of unemployed people. There are also tens of millions of people who would gladly abandon their minimum wage jobs scrubbing toilets, flipping burgers, driving trucks and shelving inventory for something better. This imaginary new category of employment does not hinge on technology -- it is going to employ people, after all, in massive numbers -- it is going to employ half of today's working population. Why don't we see any evidence of this new category of jobs today? It is something to think about...

INSIGHT

Automated retail systems like ATMs, kiosks and self-service checkout lines marked the beginning of the robotic revolution. Over the course of fifteen years starting in 2001, these systems multiplied and evolved until nearly every retail transaction could be handled in an automated way. Five million jobs in the retail sector were lost as a result of these systems.
The next step was autonomous, humanoid robots. The mechanics of walking were not simple, but Honda had proven that those problems could be solved with the creation of its ASIMO robot at the turn of the century. Sony and other manufacturers followed Honda's lead. Over the course of two decades, engineers refined this hardware and the software controlling it to the point where they could create humanoid body forms with the grace and precision of a ballerina or the mass and sheer strength of the Incredible Hulk.

Decades of research and development work on autonomous robotic intelligence finally started to pay off. By 2025, the first machines that could see, hear, move and manipulate objects at a level roughly equivalent to human beings were making their way from research labs into the marketplace. These robots could not "think" creatively like human beings, but that did not matter. Massive AI systems evolved rapidly and allowed machines to perform in ways that seemed very human.

Humanoid robots soon cost less than the average car, and prices kept falling. A typical model had two arms, two legs and the normal human-type sensors like vision, hearing and touch. Power came from small, easily recharged fuel cells. The humanoid form was preferred, as opposed to something odd like R2-D2, because a humanoid shape fit easily into an environment designed around the human body. A humanoid robot could ride an escalator, climb stairs, drive a car, and so on without any trouble.

Once the humanoid robot became a commodity item, robots began to move in and replace humans in the workplace in a significant way. The first wave of replacement began around 2030, starting with jobs in the fast food industry. Robots also filled janitorial and housekeeping positions in hotels, motels, malls, airports, amusement parks and so on.

The economics of one of these humanoid robots made the decision to buy them almost automatic. In 2030 you could buy a humanoid robot for about $10,000. That robot could clean bathrooms, take out trash, wipe down tables, mop floors, sweep parking lots, mow grass and so on. One robot replaced three eight-hour-a-day employees. The owner fired the three employees and in just four months the owner recovered the cost of the robot. The robot would last for many years and would happily work 24 hours a day. The robot also did a far better job -- for example, the bathrooms were absolutely spotless. It was impossible to pass up a deal like that, so corporations began buying armies of humanoid robots to replace human employees.

The first completely robotic fast food restaurant opened in 2031. It had some rough edges, but by 2035 the rough edges were gone and by 2040 most restaurants were completely robotic. By 2055 the robots were everywhere. The changeover was that fast. It was a startling, amazing transformation and the whole thing happened in only 25 years or so starting in 2030.

In 2055 the nation hit a big milestone -- over half of the worlds workforce was unemployed, and the number was still rising. Nearly every "normal" job that had been filled by a human being in 2001 was filled by a robot instead. At restaurants, robots did all the cooking, cleaning and order taking. At construction sites, robots did everything -- Robots poured the concrete, laid brick, built the home's frame, put in the windows and doors, sided the house, roofed it, plumbed it, wired it, hung the drywall, painted it, etc. At the airport, robots flew the planes, sold the tickets, moved the luggage, handled security, kept the building clean and managed air traffic control. At the hospital robots cared for the patients, cooked and delivered the food, cleaned everything and handled many of the administrative tasks. At the mall, stores were stocked, cleaned and clerked by robots. At the amusement park, hundreds of robots ran the rides, cleaned the park and sold the concessions. On the roads, robots drove all the cars and trucks. Companies like Fedex, UPS and the post office had huge numbers of robots instead of people sorting packages, driving trucks and making deliveries. By 2055 robots had taken over the workplace and there was no turning back.

I will be adding new stories and new job losses as I find them, I will add my views to them but there won’t be much to say as they will be self-explanatory.

Please email me if you have find anything interesting

moralminded@hotmail.com

Do you know what Moores law is?

Before you start scrolling down the page have a read of this, it basically says that computers are doubling in power every 2 years.

You have probably heard about Moore's Law. It says that CPU power doubles every 18 to 24 months or so. History shows Moore's law very clearly. You can see it, for example, by charting the course of Intel microprocessor chips starting with Intel's first single-chip microprocessor in 1971:

In 1971, Intel released the 4004 microprocessor. It was a 4-bit chip running at 108 kilohertz. It had about 2,300 transistors. By today's standards it was extremely simple, but it was powerful enough to make one of the first electronic calculators possible.

In 1981, IBM released the first IBM PC. The original PC was based on the Intel 8088 processor. The 8088 ran at 4.7 megahertz (43 times faster clock speed than the 4004) and had nearly 30,000 transistors (10 times more).
In 1993, Intel released the first Pentium processor. This chip ran at 60 megahertz (13 times faster clock speed than the 8088) and had over three million transistors (10 times more).
In 2000 the Pentium 4 appeared. It had a clock speed of 1.5 gigahertz (25 times faster clock speed than the Pentium) and it had 42 million transistors (13 times more).

You can see that there are two trends that combine to make computer chips more and more powerful. First there is the increasing clock speed. If you take any chip and double its clock speed, then it can perform twice as many operations per second. Then there is the increasing number of transistors per chip. More transistors let you get more done per clock cycle. For example, with the 8088 processor it took approximately 80 clock cycles to multiply two 16-bit integers together. Today you can multiply two 32-bit floating point numbers every clock cycle. Some chips today even allow you to get more than one floating point operation done per clock cycle. Taking Moore's law literally, you would expect processor power to increase by a factor of 1,000 every 15 or 20 years. Between 1981 and 2001, that was definitely the case. Clock speed improved by a factor of over 300 during that time, and the number of transistors per chip increased by a factor of 1,400. A processor in 2002 is 10,000 times faster than a processor in 1982 was. This trend has been in place for decades, and there is nothing to indicate that it will slow down any time soon.

The point where small, inexpensive computers have power approaching that of the human brain is just a few decades away. That is when the fun will start!!!!!!!!

Shinny new Robot

This is my words written to the tune of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crowes

Shinny new Robot

They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot
With an restless work ethic and the ability to take on the lot

Don’t we all seem to know
That our bosses are letting today’s jobs go
They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

They took away all the workers and put em in a retirement hostel
Where they sit and stare and claim that this lifestyle is hell

No no no no

Don’t we all seem to know
That our bosses are letting today’s jobs go
They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

Hey Mr rich businessman, please give my job back to me
I would rather pay higher taxes and increased levies

Please

Don’t we all seem to know
That our bosses are letting today’s jobs go
They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

Hey now

They sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

All at once now

I was up late last night, and heard a young girl crying
She said that a new robot had taken her dads job away

Now don’t we all seem to know
That the greedy businessman seems to let jobs go
They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

Hey now now

Don’t we all seem to know
That our bosses are letting today’s jobs go
They’ve sacked all the workers and employed a new robot

why not

Sack all the workers and employ a shinny new robot

Hey hey hey

Sack all the workers to make a huge profit

Why you wanna give em
Why you wanna give em
Why you wanna give them all away hey hey hey

Why you wanna give em
Why do they wanna give em
Just given them all away no no

Why you wanna give em
Why you wanna give em
Why do you wanna give them away
Give em all
Give em all way hey

Just give em all away hey hey hey

Hey, sack all the workers and think about huge profit

La la la

Sack all the workers and employ a shinny new robot…………..

No more Harvester drivers

I cannot see a driver!!!

The Demeter system strives to provide three levels of automation to harvesters, and eventually to tractors and combines. First, a “cruise control” feature, which will automatically steer, drive and control the harvesting header, will be provided to harvester operators. This feature will allow the operator to focus on other in-cab controls and harvest conditions, and to better handle contingency situations. Secondly, a “drone” feature will be provided, allowing one operator to remotely control several harvesters. Thirdly, a fully autonomous machine will be developed that will allow a harvester to completely harvest a field with no human supervision via satalite.

No more Jim's Mowing

I have started to see these things around in the shops for sale and they are selling said one salesman, it's a lawnmower. The introduction of the hands-free, battery operated lawn mower that does the work for you. Features such as 360 degree safety bumpers, a tilt sensor and audio warnings provide a protected mowing environment. You just sit back in your hammock downing on a beer as the Robotic Mower makes your tall grass short. If I had one I would NOT tell the wife, all we men need now is a robotic rubish bin, then all our chores will be covered. In fact maybe a robot wife would be a good idea, turn it on when you want something done, then turn it off when its finnished, mmm.....

No More Females "woo hoo"

I had to do it after the last post, just could not help my sterotypical male mind. (no I don't think this could replace my wife)

No more car salesman "Yeah"

Everyone hates a car saleman (unless you get a good deal), well, here is some good news, soon they will be gone from the show floor. These robots are already taking jobs, but at the moment, they are a bit expensive for every business to own, but just like everything else that's new, they will become cheaper over time to a point that they will cost less than a worker, and they will probably know more about their product their selling than a human rep.

Here is a newspaper story

TOKYO -- Honda may have come up with the most attentive and perhaps honest car dealer ever in its child-size walking robot Asimo.

The 4-foot-tall machine, shown to reporters Wednesday, already knew how to walk, climb stairs and recognize voices. An upgraded version now also understands human gestures and movement. The robot is used as a promotional tool, reciting information about cars in showrooms and appearing in commercials and at Honda events. It rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in February.

The upgraded robot turns its bubble-shaped head to follow the moves of nearby people, giving it a communicative, ready-to-help appearance. Asimo uses the visual information taken by a camera in its head to recognize 10 different preprogrammed faces and will call out that person's name.

The company refuses to disclose the cost of the robot, which first went on sale two years ago. Honda will offer the improved model for rental next year in Japan at $162,000 a year. It now rents to seven companies in Japan. This might sound expensive, but in 10 years time they will be cheaper, and they will keep on getting cheaper. In a demonstration at Honda headquarters in Tokyo, the new robot understood where a person is pointing and moved in that direction.

"I will go where you instruct," it said in a childish electronic voice. If a person circles an arm above the head, the robot understands it is being summoned. Wave, and it waves back. Asimo a name based on the Japanese word for "legs" can stop or walk backward to avoid an approaching person. And it connects to a wireless computer server to recite information about cars.

No more Police

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have unveiled a wheeled police robot that makes many of the “how to” decisions on its own, freeing up its operator to make the more critical “what to do next” decisions during potentially dangerous bomb-disablement or other law enforcement missions.

It won’t be long before these robots will be making all the choices on their. You will start to see them in riots and patrolling streets looking and hearing for any trouble. They will have onboard, facial recognition software and voice recognition software, they will also have onboard stun guns and chemical sprays to stop criminals in there tracks.

No more window cleaners

Like a fly climbing a wall, this robotic window cleaner scampers up the side of skyscrapers ensuring they retain their gleam. The machine hangs on to a vertical surface using vacuum suckers. Its locomotive design allows it to traverse obstacles such as lintels, ventilation grids and sun-blinds. It even recycles the water it uses to clean the windows - no rushing to a tap, no mess. The robot's developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, in Magdeburg, Germany, say it will keep working in winds that would be regarded as dangerous for human cleaners. Dr Norbert Elkmann of the IFF explains: "Our objective was to develop a complete system which, in addition to the robot and the cleaning system, was able to provide its own safety and security system and carry its own supply of materials." SIRIUSc, as the robot is known, can work on many different kinds of façade. It carries all its brushes and water. And because all the water is filtered and returned to the cleaning cycle, the windows are instantly dry and no water runs or drips down the side of the building. Dr Elkmann says SIRIUSc will clean up to 120 square metres per hour. Faster than a human. The German robot was recently showcased at the international "Cleaning in the new Millennium" exhibition and fair in Singapore.

No more manned Submarines

Robotic submarines are soon to replace manned submarines, just like the autonomous planes are replacing pilots. These robotic subs are far cheaper than the huge manned subs of todays navy, and because they are cheaper, the navy can produce more of them. The are many befits to this, but the main reason being that 40 robot subs can be sent to battle and even if 20 get destroyed and detected, there is still another 20 robot subs that can complete the mission.

No more cleaners

Do you see the cleaners walking around the shopping centre or your workplace sweeping and mopping, how about the hospitals and the city streets, well these jobs are going as well, now!. This robot cleaner is in use overseas, and it it cleans 24/7. This robot has not got it yet, but I think that it won't be long before they will also become information centres as well, maybe even security guards, or better still, you will send a robot a list of what you want via emial while you are still at home, then by the time you get in the shops your shopping would have allready been done. All you will have to do then is drive through a drive through and pick up your order.

No more Miners

Underground coal mining is a cooperative enterprise of powerful mobile equipment and the people who operate it. If mining equipment could be automated, the mining industry could enhance productivity, access unworlcable mineral seams, and reduce human exposure to the dangerous underground mine environment. This is a robotic miner, it can maneuver in highly constrained environments and cut coal without a human operator onboard. The system consists of a modified continuous miner, a laser range sensor, a SPARCstation, and control software. To date, the system has been tested in a real coal mine. This robot is the first instance of an intelligent robotic system for cutting coal.

No more teachers, no more classrooms

Its happening now, computers are teaching and taking jobs. Classrooms are looking like this phot above, and teachers are only really just there to control the room, soon kids will not have to go to school if the choose not to. There are many benifits to this, the main one being that the kids can learn at their own pace and without pressure.

No more truck drivers

Driverless (autonomous) haul truck fleets will soon operate at full capacity in world-class mining operations. The Komatsu / Modular research and development partnership has proven the viability of this technology in a real-world environment. The FrontRunner™ Nonstop Haulage System provides labor cost savings, reduction in truck maintenance costs, and reduced variability in the haulage process. Additionally, mines using this system can expect improved safety performance and process control while gaining a competitive advantage in the market.

Were did all the car makers go?

Thousands of jobs had gone to robots in the automotive trade, won't be long before homes are made in factories and build in a few days just like this, not true you say, already happening, and in fact, a block of 6 units was made here in Australia this year in about week, imported from overseas, bye bye builders

No more house work

No more house work, I can hear you all yelling with joy. Could this be the end of the James home cleaning service?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What may be the world’s smallest robot — it “turns on a dime and parks on a nickel” — is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

At 1/4 cubic inch and weighing less than an ounce, it is possibly the smallest autonomous untethered robot ever created. Powered by three watch batteries, it rides on track wheels and consists of an 8K ROM processor, temperature sensor, and two motors that drive the wheels. Enhancements being considered include a miniature camera, microphone, communication device, and chemical micro-sensor.

Robots are becoming smaller, smarter, autonomous and cheaper. And, above all, they are now entering our homes. Robotic pets, smart toys, autonomous lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners, or mechanical security guards, among others, will lead the dance. Welcome in the "domestic robots era". In the years to come, we will all get one or many of these machines. Rodney Brooks, head af MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab (and founder of iRobot, a domestic robots manufacturer) envisions a future where dozens of tiny and autonomous machines will clean the windows, wipe the table or monitor our house when we're out, creating a new "domestic ecology". British Telecom's own futurologist, Ian Pearson, predicts that by year 2020, a few millions of tiny, insect-like robots will populate the Earth.

No more Fire-fighters

Once autonomous robots are available in mass market, it is easy to imagine robotic firefighters that are packed into closets on every floor of a high-rise or apartment. When a fire is detected, these robots instantly burst from their closets to fight the blaze and rescue the people in the building. This will save a lot of lives, but it will also be the end of human firefighters as a profession.

No more live pets, no more Vets

Will there be such a thing as Robot cruelity? What are professional breeders and Vets going to do do for work, even electronic workers will not be fixing these little pets either as they we be maintained buy service robots at service plants.

The new ERS-210 model, shipments of which will begin in December, is based on the appearance of a baby lion and features more movement and sensors than the first model, a greater range of emotions, limited voice recognition and the ability to take digital photographs.

The robots can now be given a name to which they will respond and, as they develop, will be able to understand up to about 50 words, according to Sony executives at a press conference held here to unveil the new product. The voice recognition will tie in with another new feature -- the digital camera. Users just need say "take a photo" and the robot will snap a picture of what it can see with a color camera built into its nose.

Other significant differences lie in the way data is transferred from a personal computer to the robot. Sony has installed a Memory Stick slot and also equipped the device with a wireless LAN (local area network) adapter. In addition to simple data control, the latter also allows for real-time control of the Aibo through a PC.
The technical enhancements are all aimed at making Aibo a more intelligent robot and improving user interaction, but perhaps the most significant difference lies in the marketing strategy.

The company is keen to make entertainment robots into a real business and as such has formed an autonomous division, the "Entertainment Robot Company," to focus on both hardware and software development and lead the company's charge into this new market. The first big change is the price. Sony has brought this down considerably, from 250,000 yen to 150,000 yen ($2,315 to $1,389) for the new model. In the U.S. it will sell for a largely comparable price of $1,500 and in Europe for 1,500 euros ($1,305).

It will also be available continuously, unlike last time, when Sony restricted the number of robots available or limited the time during which they could be ordered. Consumers can begin placing orders from Nov. 16, with first shipments arriving in early December. Aibo is also being taken on the street. Department stores and shops such as Sony Plaza will establish Aibo areas within their stores where users can experience the robots first hand and play with them. For many consumers, this will be their first opportunity to see the robot in real life.

Sony is betting the combination of the lower price, continuous availability and their presence in shops will boost sales -- higher sales are vital if Sony is to make entertainment robots into a profitable product line and grow the business. Executives were unwilling to provide any sales estimates, although they did say the Nagano, Japan, factory where Aibo is made has a maximum capacity of 60,000 units per month. Sony first put Aibo on sale in June 1999 and made headlines after selling 5,000 of the devices in minutes through its Web site, despite their $2,500 price tag.

More were put on sale in November last year. Then, the company agreed to accept all orders for a limited period and then dole out the 10,000 available robots by lottery. It was the November sale that woke the company up to something that had been missed during the June sale -- the vast majority of the demand for Aibo was from Japan and not overseas. Of the 135,000 orders received, 132,000 orders came from Japan, 2,000 from North America and 1,000 from Europe.

No more Judges

This is a new and I have not heard about this philosophy. I was thinking that if the government approves lie detectors, and the Polograph dose not lie and has a 100% success rate, this would mean we will not need lawyers and judges. All you will need to do is front up to a computer run courthouse, plug yourself into a Polograph and then the computer would ask you questions like "did you kill this person" or "did you steal this car" or "did your speed cause an accident" yes or no? you will have no choice but to tell the truth. Then once the computer works out who is telling the truth, that person would be let go, the other person would be locked in the room until a people moving robot comes and collects you, then takes you the a jail, where you would serve your "preset" sentence based on what the crime was.

Future newspaper ad- Supreme court Judge looking for work, but cannot even get a job at McDonalds as robots have taken over!!!

In fact, this could open many doors, like no more passports, you will just have a computer asking if are a threat, or if you are infact the person you claim to be.

Ah life is going to be bliss

No more Welders

Many thousands of jobs have already gone to robots in the welding trade, but more are going to go once robot welders can weld via the use of computer CCTV vision. Not only the automotive trade are going to be using an assembly line to make products, buildings/homes are now being developed in the same way and erected in kit form in a matter of days.

No more Sheep Shearers

"A little to the left"

In the case of the sheep shearing robot, productivity of sheep stations can be increased also, with fully automated sheep shearing plants taking over from teams of shearers. After all, robots do not get tired, and don't require lodging, feeding or backpay! However, care must be taken to keep such systems maintained regularly, as conditions on outback stations are inhospitable for such precision machinery. The Australian Wool Corporation is continuing its research into robotics sheep shearing, so perhaps we shall see such a system under real operating conditions shortly.

Other fields of agriculture should take note of the research being carried out currently, as robotics have much wider applications than the two described here. Since Australia's economy depends heavily on open farm techniques in agriculture, the time is right for the research base to be widened. Productivity is the key, and without further development in agricultural robotics, Australia could face pressure in the world market if food cannot be produced at competitive prices.

BA RAM YOU!!!

No more Soldiers

This photo maybe an artist impression, but don't laugh, it is the futue of things to come. There is one point the artist did not pick up on (probably because he was not thinking of robots taking over jobs) is that there are to many humans in the picture.

An popsci.com artical, describes the Army's current plans for robots on the battlefield:

The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is intended to create a force that is as powerful as today's but substantially more nimble. The Army's goal is for both remote control and autonomous unmanned vehicles to be a major part of ground combat by 2010. "Military robots are being developed and fielded to do three things: perform the dull, the dirty and the dangerous (ithough most military jobs were dangerous)," says military robotics pioneer Scott D. Myers, president of General Dynamics Robotic Systems in Westminster, Maryland.

For a soldier on the battlefield, everything is dangerous. There are bullets, bombs and shrapnel whizzing through the air. Most everything happening on the battlefield is also dirty. In the near future there will be no humans on the battlefield. This is going to save the goverment millions of dollars plus the can play their little games more without worring about human life. No more Post Traumatic stress claims, pensions, training costs and expensive vehicles to get human to where they got to go.

What happened to the Checkout Chick?

Why is this old lady smiling? she is to old to be affected by all this (job taking) technoligy.

It won't be long before we here in Australia have auto checkout lanes, who are we going to complain to, about how slow the lane moves, I can see some bad tempers are going to be pushed.

Doctor, I need some human touch!

Can you find the Doctor?

Yonsei surgeons get helping handsJuly 19, 2005 ㅡ The era of robotic surgery has arrived in Korea. Yesterday at Severance Hospital in Sinchon, a robot performed an entire operation, from opening up the patient to stitching everything up.Previously, robots had supported surgeons in operations. But with the "da Vinci" surgical robot, doctors now play the supporting role. "We have now entered a period where robots are in charge of the operations," said Rha Koon-ho, a professor in the robot surgery team at Severance Hospital. In preparation for yesterday's surgery, the surgeon made four one-centimeter holes in the patient's stomach to insert carbon dioxide and the eyes and the arms of the robot. As soon as the robot's eyes, a camera, entered the patient's body, the organs were presented to the doctor on a three-dimensional screen, 16 times larger than their real size. Looking at the screen, the doctor used a joystick to control the robot's arms, which moved every bit as nimbly as the doctor's own. The robot's task, which was to remove a damaged part of the patient's gallbladder, was completed just nine minutes after the operation started. Lee Woo-jung, the doctor in charge of the operation, said the robots have great potential. "Robots can access small areas that people's hands cannot reach," he said. "This surgical robot is able to move its wrist freely, which makes the operation much simpler than before."In addition, robot surgeons are able to keep their hands much steadier than their human counterparts.Although a first for Korea, there are already more than 300 surgical robots in use in the United States. Robots can be used in most surgical procedures, including heart surgery and removal of tumors from the stomach, pancreas and lung.

No more Farmers

This is certainly not unusual in agriculture. We already have wheat picking machines, corn picking machines, cotton picking machines and so on.

The tomato harvester robot is able to locate and pick ripe tomatoes; the robot's "eye" scans the tomato plant and determines the number and position of ripe fruit. Image processing algorithms created specifically for the robot are able to detect ripe fruit even if it is partially obscured by branches or leaves. Using this data, the four-fingered prosthetic hand locates a tomato, opens the fingers and takes hold of the fruit. The robot balances pulling, bending and torsion movements to detach the tasty treat..

There is even a watermelon picker that has a robotic vision system that is the enabling technology. As these vision-based harvesting robots come on line, there will also be vision-based retail stocking robots, vision-based hamburger assembling robots, vision-based bathroom cleaning robots, vision-based truck driving robots, vision-based roofing robots and so on, all coming online at approximately at the same time. Tens of millions of workers will be displaced simultaneously, I kid you not

Unwanted jockies need a job

Robot camel jockeysQatar has staged the world's first ever camel race with robot jockeys. Seven robot jockeys took part in the race at Al Shahaniyya Camel Racecourse on the outskirts of Doha.Race officials said it was a successful event. Robot jockeys were developed after child camel jockeys were banned. Camel racing is a hugely popular sport in the Gulf countries and children were preferred jockeys because of their light weight.But the ban was introduced over concerns the children were treated like slaves by their employers.

Will robots take over as jockies? maybe, but who will control who wins and looses, how can races be fixed? This will be the reason why they won't be introduced too soon, as the industry needs to be able to cheat and fix races!

Fast food gets faster!

MCDONALDS ORDER STATION

This is just one of the new designs of kiosks used in USA McDonalds restaurants for the purpose of ordering food. These kiosks are located in Corporate and franchisee stores to support rapid ordering. Kiosks are made from metal with powder coat paint and decals. Components include a 15" LCD, touch screen, bill acceptor, credit card or bankcard reader, encrypted PIN pad, receipt printer and PC.

It has started, so get used to it, oh oh, where are the juniors going to work in 5 years time?

Professionals are saying that by 2015 all major fast food outlets will be workerless!

BYE BYE PILOTS

As soon as human get used to robots and accepts them as risk free (less risk than humans) we will be getting flown all over the world by computers. Pictured here is a Global Hawk, it is pilotless, do you kids want to be a pilot, well forget it as in 20 years time the only thing human will fly are remote controlled toy planes!

While plane designers dream of a high-tech future, the aerospace industry is debating whether if it will become feasible to fly passengers without pilots.

Computers already play a major role flying many present-day jetliners. They have the capability of carrying out takeoffs. And, they routinely are relied upon during long-range cruising. In good weather they often land planes — but always with a human crew ready to take over. Industry experts on Thursday said pilot-less commercial flights are unlikely any time soon. But they acknowledge that the idea has gained greater currency after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, successfully undertook reconnaissance, electronic jamming and ground attacks in both conflicts.In line with this trend, UAVs are taking center stage at a major international air exhibition for the first time. Dozens of the quirky-looking spy planes are on display at this week's Asian Aerospace show in Singapore.This year, Asian Aerospace's flying display didn't open with the usual roar of jet fighters — but with the barely audible buzz of a robotic drone plane.

Several UAV manufacturers say their technologies could eventually replace commercial airline pilots.Possibilities include preprogrammed flights and a single human pilot siting in from a computer screen controlling several craft from a base thousands of miles away."Of course it can be done," said Haim Kellerman, vice president of the UAV program at Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense contractor. "There is nothing inherently different between (manned and unmanned) aircraft in terms of aerodynamics. It is only a question of whether there is a will to do it or not." For the military, UAVs have the obvious advantage of keeping people out of harm's way. For commercial aviation, the aircraft without pilots could slash operation costs like training and salaries.Still, civilian plane makers have said they have no immediate plans to eliminate cockpit crews."It's not imaginable to have a drone airplane full of passengers," said Airbus Industries spokeswoman Barbara Kracht. "When you have passengers there are so many factors that make a crew indispensable. There will always be two pilots on our planes."Robert Agostino, director of flight operations of Canadian jet maker Bombardier, agreed."There may be a time in the future when UAV technology will have a great impact on military operations," Agostino said. "But when it comes to commercial planes, it's very different. A pilot can adapt to an unlimited number of changing circumstances."

However, Boeing, the big U.S. plane maker, has refused to rule out UAV technology in its future airliners."We're evaluating the UAV concept. But we don't have any plans at this time to incorporate it into our commercial aircraft," said James Wilkinson, Boeing's manager of product analysis and communications marketing. "Following a review of the technology, if it makes sense, we probably would include it."