What is the future related to robotics in the workplace?
ST: Robotics in the workplace will no doubt be driven by two areas of concern: safety and efficiency. Many highly unsafe tasks in manufacturing, such as welding and metalworking, are already handled by robotics. Many routine tasks that operate too slowly with humans to be cost effective in mass production, such as the creation and population of circuit boards, are performed by robots. This is a trend that is likely to continue to its logical conclusion in a robotic factory that will be tended by one human. This will also spawn a whole new level of jobs and careers for our children of today as humanity takes its next step beyond the information age to the creative society called into existence by the full application of the human mind freed of the encumbrances of mundane labor.
