Although it may still be difficult to imagine a robot or computer who can serve as a lawyer, it may not too far to imagine a future with paralegal robots. To give an example even, there has been a robot that has been considered to serve as a consultant for medical doctors – the award winning jeopardy winner Watson. The most recent infographic from Mindflash has considered a list of job titles that can be done by robots and computers in much better performance and cheaper costs. The following are some of these jobs and the reasons why robots can perform them too.
Retail Clerks – virtual cashiers had started operating back in 2009, providing less costs for employee payment but more goods sold.

Paralegals – the fast sifting and analyzing of legal documents can save lawyers dollar costs per hour
Armed Forces – Fully robotic soldiers in the front lines? Surely people would prefer the no blood shed event.
Medical Transcriptionists – The Dragon Speech Recognition software will now provide the tedious work of Medical professionals.

Commercial Drivers – The Automated Car project by Google will save the company’s expenses. This automated car runs 1000 miles without human interventions.

Pharmacists – The UCSF will give you precise dosage without single error.

Customer Service Representatives – The Artificially Intelligent Call Center will have Robotics alternative for customer service.

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Early in September, WellPoint, Inc. and IBM televised an agreement to use the Jeopardy! Award winning computer named Watson in helping doctors make medical decisions for their complex patients’ cases.

This program, which is deemed to fully function by 2012, will begin its assistance through helping out nurses review treatment requests from medical providers.

The next thing to be done with Watson would be to place it in a field to limited oncology practitioners.

It is perceived that Watson, with its ability to process pages and pages of data in only 3 seconds, will be able to help doctors answer their questions about medical symptoms and compare reactions to treatment processes.

The goal eventually is to cut the costs of quality service, which is usually high when several experts are involved in a singular medical consultation event.

WellPoint’s Chief Medical Officer Sam Nussbaum, M.D., had given words regarding Watson’s excellent system performance.

He had said that given the several advances in medical science and clinical knowledge, and given Watson’s analytical capacity to consider all prior cases similar to the new one being input in its system, and the capacity to take in all patient information from symptoms to findings to patient interviews, Watson, will surely help the consulting physician come up with diagnosis and provide a treatment outlay fast.

The Chief Medical Officer also added “We believe this will be an invaluable resource for our partnering physicians and will dramatically enhance the quality and effectiveness of medical care they deliver to out members.”

A problem however with the set up, although this has probably not much been focused on by IBM and WellPoint, Inc. is the idea that Watson made some geography mistake during its Jeopardy win.

When faced with the final question about US Cities (Its Largest Airport is named after a World War II hero and Its Second Largest after World War II Battle) Watson’s answer was Toronto, when the answer was Chicago.

This thing, being a simple mistake, still reflects the idea that even the smartest computers will always make some blunder.

If this is the case, then Watson’s future performance will be highlighted and scrutinized.

However, who get’s to be sued for malpractice when Watson blunders? The medical specialist or IBM?

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Well, it’s not only about enjoying a piece of pancake or playing with lego, but it’s all about a robot who cooks pancake with the aid of legos.

Literally, its body and structure is made out of lego blocks. Yes, you heard it right. A toy plus a food, combined together, the result is a robot. This was named as the Pancake bot.

pparently, the PB or Pancake Bot is a three axis CNC that uses Z-coordinate as the Pancake Dispenser Control.

It has five parts to complete, we enumerate it as:

1) the set of linked base plates
2) the movable bridge
3) carrier gantry
4) the Pancake dispenser unit
5) Compressed Air Dispersal Apparatus.

Now, we don’t have to deal with technicalities that are why we want you to watch the video on how this pancake-maker cooks pancakes in different shapes.

This recent invention may not be as good as those humanoids that we have previously seen in exhibits, one thing that makes them in common is that these are all robots, a mere human-made machine that acts and performs some human tasks.

However, we have known that due to these technological advancements, we have replaced human labor with machines that have led to the vast prevalence of unemployment in the country.

We can’t deny that robots have advantages, but too much dependence on these machines will drown the human beings into laziness and lousiness.

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Ever since the beginning of civilizations, beer drinking has been part of social activities and gatherings. Beer is one of the most popular beverages in the world that is widely consumed by people from different walks of life. We can rarely see the presence of this alcoholic drink in the party-oriented society that we have today. No wonder, there are people who really are gaining millions out of producing and serving this drink to many consumers.

Probably due to the beer’s popularity, the Autonomous Systems Lab in the Department of Product Design and Engineering at Middlesex University developed a robot which serves beer to customers. This autonomous microprocessor controlled mobile system is called as Heineken Beer Robot. It already appeared at the Kinetica Art Fair London in February 2010,

Accordingly, this Beer Robot can run on flat and clear surfaces with a minimum of 1m x .5 m dimensions. This has infrared sensors that keep it from falling, bumping and pouring the exact amount of beer into the customer’s glass.

This Beer Robot is also composed of live edge Acrylic, Aluminum, Steel, and Rubber materials with a specific dimension of 40 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm. Its main components are pic based microprocessor, 12 V x 2 dc motors with encoders, a servo Motor, 3 infrared sensors and one ultrasonic sensor. Moreover, it can be powered by 12 V dc Li-Po Rechargeable battery and Replaceable 6 V dc AA batteries.

Currently, Heineken Beer Robot’s retail price is £2,195.00.

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Robots and other machines equipped with artificial intelligence shoot military targets, distribute cash (think: ATMs), drive cars and deliver medication to patients, to name a few. If people performed these duties, they would be expected to behave in a certain way and follow moral and ethical guidelines. But what about robots? They can’t yet think and act on their own accord, so should we expect them to behave morally?

Researchers working in the field of machine ethics say yes and are investigating ways to program machines to behave morally.

Two researchers have programmed a robot to behave ethically so that it makes morally sound decisions. Based on certain facts and outcomes, the robot must weigh a decision and then make choices about what to do, Discovery News reported.

Philosopher Susan Anderson and her research partner and husband Mich-ael Anderson, a computer scientist, created the robot based on an approach to ethics developed in 1930 by Scottish philosopher David Ross. he so-called prima facie duty approach takes into account the different obligations a person must face — such as being just, doing good, not causing harm, keeping a promise — when deciding how to act in a moral way.

The robot’s programme weighs the benefits the patient will have if she takes medicines, the harm that may come if she doesn’t and her right to autonomy.

The robot reminds patients to take medication, and after the patient says ‘no’ a few times, decides to tell the doctor. The disadvantage is not knowing what the machine will do if the patient says she will take the medication, but doesn’t. The patient could flip off the switch.

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Most children would love to have a robot to do their chores, like cleaning their room. WowWee, makers of all sorts of cool toy robots and other electronics, has granted this wish with the Roboscooper, which is able to pick up things in a child’s room automatically.

The six-wheeled robot is like a cross between Wall-E and the 1980s “favorite” Big Trak. In fact, the product page even bills it as “WowWee’s answer to Wall-E” . Unlike Wall-E, this ‘bot looks like it would have trouble lifting anything weighing more than an empty potato-chip packet. Which brings us to the frustration.

As Roboscooper’s name suggests, he will pick up items detected on the floor in autonomous mode, or when controlled by the included remote. With half a dozen wheels, he is able to travel across most terrain without a hitch, featuring multi-directional mobility. Not only that, he might even crack you up with a collection of funny phrases and sound effects, while sensors integrated in his hands let him detect objects in front, with a choice to pick it up or knock them around. It does have one feature that Wall-E doesn’t. It can talk, offering such trite and annoying phrases as “Let’s get to work!” and “One step closer to a cleaner world.” Ugh.

If you want one, the WowWee Roboscooper will ship at the end of this month, and cost about $70. It will require 6 AAA batteries for operation. Check out new prices and buy it from Amazon.

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Bina48 is an interactive robotic head whose appearance and personality are based on those of a real woman, Bina Rothblatt. The bot was wrought by android wizard David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, known for its Einstein android. It contains 30 servomotors covered by rubber skin.

Modeled after a real Bina, this robot head spent hours talking to the real Bina in question so as to learn a wide variety of expressions and gestures. The end result was a robot that can actually speak and act a lot like a human does, complete with strange vocabulary and realistic expressions.

Bina48 isn’t the first android to be based on a real woman, the Actroid and Geminoid projects in Japan are based on real people as well. But Bina48′s aim of recreating someone’s appearance, personality, and memories is provocative.

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Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (http://www.makerbot.com),  building open source robot kits that allow you to do rapid prototyping and 3D Printing at home.

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Robotinho was developed at the University of Bonn, and riding on the Roomba QuadDrive by the German Museum in Bonn, where he leads visitors on which it can enter even a bit.

The curious robotic creation pictured below is called the Roomba QuadDrive, and hails from the University of Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab. The Roomba QuadDrive is an omnidirectional mobile robot base of the powered caster variety with one obvious characteristic: it uses four IRobot Roomba 530s as the drive motors, each paired with a Robotis Dynamixel RX-64 servo for steering.

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Le Petit Prince Robot may be the one of its kind, it is a extremely cute, mobile, plant-loving greenhouse robot that take care of the plants and support his fast vegetation. A Tube of Glass in the head of the robot is designed to store the plant. This Robot learn the optimal growing condition of the plant it collects and inform the place or terrain to ravage and continuously analyze the growth of the plant. One think is sure that Le Petit Prince Robot will be the prince of the future vegetation.

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