The Pros and Cons of Robots
With robots becoming more common each and every day, it is important to understand both the advantages and disadvantages that robots have. This will help enable people to better determine when to use and when to not use robots.
The Advantages of Robots
1.Cost: The most obvious advantage of robots is their cost. Robots are cheaper than most human counterparts, and their costs are still decreasing.
2.Abilities: Robotic abilities, what robots can do, are now extremely vast and growing.
3.Productivity: Robots do not tire and can work very long hours without service or maintenance. As a result, robots can be significantly more productive than people.
4.Precision: Robots can be much more precise than people. For instance, robots should not tremble or shake as human hands do. Furthermore, robots can have much smaller and versatile moving parts than people. As a result, robots have even performed medical surgeries, because they can be more precise than people.
5.Strength: Without a doubt, robots can be significantly stronger than people.
6.Speed: Additionally, robots can be significantly faster than people too.
7.Size: Robots can come in any size. Whatever size needed for any task can be created.
8.Environment: Robots can be designed to work in extremely harsh environments, such as in space, without air, underwater, fire, etc. Thus, robots can be used instead of people when human safety is a concern.
9.Dangerous and Unwanted Work: Finally, robots can do jobs that people are unwilling to do. For instance, many robotic probes have been sent throughout the solar system to never return back to Earth. I don’t think many people would be willing to do those types of jobs.
10.Warfare: Using robots in warfare eliminates putting more people at risk and has proven to be very successful.