By admin Robotics was the brainchild of engineering and philosophy, STEM and the humanities, the objective and the subjective. In 1948, Norbert Weiner proposed the idea of robotics, and George Devol brought those ideas to life 6 years later in 1954.Since then robotics has gained the potential to change the world forever when the idea of artificial intelligence emerged into the aether of ideas. The field of robotics went from any other subdivision of engineering into artificial intelligence, a revolutionary breakthrough that could change society.Now, before we continue, we must clearly define the difference between the two fields. Robotics is simply using engineering to create machines that have a set code of actions that include physical movement and a limited set of words their creator put in their code.Artificial intelligence is the term describing robots who have an ever-expanding set of actions they can take, with their code allowing them to learn new skills on their own. With robots, you yourself would have to add these actions to their code.Once artificial intelligence was introduced and the first artificially intelligent robots were created, scientists and philosophers began discussing the possibility of having these robots take up the jobs humans work: From simple jobs like a janitor to complex jobs like a journalist.This question was met with a hoard of infuriated, anxious ""s. The status quo screamed with horror that it would ruin the economy, and the more fringe of the status quo (ironic as that sounds) warned it would lead to AI becoming so sophisticated that it took over human civilization.I will not discuss the economic side. rather I will address the fear that AI would become so sophisticated that it would revolt against humanity and make us obsolete. This is, as much as I originally presented as fringe, a very reasonable fear.With artificial intelligence, you have a machine that is constantly gaining new abilities and talents. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is stopping it from becoming capable of rebelling against the species its creator belonged to creating a brave new world.So, we must rely on robots. Robots have a limited set of skills. They only know what we teach them. If we never inform them on how to perform that task by implementing it into their code, then they'll never learn. So we simply avoid teaching them how to rebel and we'll be fine.The world of robotics is a wonderful opportunity for the human race. Robots could take up the jobs we have no will to do and allow us to live wonderous lives of decadence and luxury. Automation is not our enemy, it is not out friend, it is our servant.