http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/n...se-boasts-tot/
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Machinery's robotic delivery system (pictured above) which is designed to help in places like hospitals, delivering medications late at night so that nurses and aids don't have to spend a lot of time on such tasks.
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The warning currently is that most if not all service related jobs will be done by robots by 2025. I personally think that is off by about 5 years because of news like this.
In my view.
2010 Robots doing basic assistance. Mainly standing around and waiting to be commanded to produce something or flipping switches or whatnot at a certain time. This will cause a few jobs to be replaced.
2013 Robots start gaining better command systems and sensors. Now a few will be able to do such tasks as cooking simple meals. and organizing in warehouses. A more serious job loss results.
2015 Robots start seriously taking the place of humans in a variety of different jobs. By this point it is safe to say humans will compete with robots for a job at McDonalds.
2017 Half the service workforce is replaced by robots. However at this time Mineral and food prices start to fall dramatically as robots are now useful in exploiting resources or caring for plants.
2019 Robot become more standardized and start to be mass produced which drops prices across the board. The large amount of job loss means unemployment requests skyrocket. But with taxes from more businesses that can economically pay them with robots working 24/7 it works out.
2020 Skynet... No just kidding! By this point I think its safe to say that robots will have changed the face of civilization.