How Robots Could Change The World By 2023
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by JOSHUA BERLINGER | Business Insider
Robots are here to stay, and Americans might want to get used to them says President and CEO of ReconRobotics, Alan Bignall.
Bignall stresses that Americans' perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue-collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in "Terminator").
Robots are starting to make their mark in a myriad of industries. Bignall has already seen similar technologies that the Throwbot employs applied in patient and elderly care, mapping, retail research and the banking industry.
The real question America has to decide for itself, Bignall says, is what side will it end up on in the robot economy: "America is at a point where it has to decide, are we a user of robots or a designer or builder of robots? Are we going to have the robot building jobs or are we going to be a country that uses robots built by other countries?"