Science, Technology and Society.

Bernardo, Jhoren R.

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Guide Questions

Instructions: Answer the questions below. You submit your output to your Google Drive folder for
checking. Also, answer the essay question #3 below in a 500-word count.

1. What do you think are the limitations in using robots for everyday living? Provide examples to
support your answer.

2. What are the activities that robots cannot do as humans can? Provide examples to support your
answer

3. Do you agree that robots can replace humans in the near future? Answer this question in at
least 500-word count. You submit your answer to your Google Drive folder for checking.

Answers:

1. Limitations of robots are the human senses, use of energy and identification of feelings. We
cannot rely every time in robots the particular reason for this circumstance is that they do not
have human senses to provide such details. Energy helps to provide a robot to work and using to
much energy is a harm for the environment, they may help us in producing something but, they
are using other things in the environment in other to make them work. Robots does not have
any feelings that is why we cannot trust them because they are being controlled.
2. As what I have explained in the number 1, robots do not have the senses of a human which may
able to help them to identify something using the senses, they only have knowledge from what
they are programmed to.
3. Yes, they can take the place of humans in such jobs. Right now in the present, I can see that
robots have already replaced humans in household tasks such as sweeping the floor. Technology
has produced an automatic vacuum that moves itself while cleaning the floor, and in washing
clothes, we used to wash our clothes by hand or with a wood, but now we use washing
machines that can watch and dry our clothes faster. Robots will replace humans if we continue
to seek innovation, particularly in technological areas, until humans no longer need to move. I
don't want to rely on them because, in my opinion, technology or these robots are making
humans lazy. Humans need to move or work in order to provide blood circulation and to use
their own energies. On the one hand, robots make things easier, but on the other hand, they
make humans lazier. It may have an impact on human productivity because people may believe
that they no longer need to do such things because robots can do it. If we continue to develop
robots that can replace us, humans will be obsolete, affecting the lives of everyone on the
planet. I don't want to rely on them because, in my opinion, technology or these robots are
making humans lazy. Humans need to move or work in order to provide blood circulation and to
use their own energies. On the one hand, robots make things easier, but on the other hand, they
make humans lazier. It may have an impact on human productivity because people may believe
that they no longer need to do such things because robots can do it. If we continue to develop
robots that can replace us, humans will be obsolete, affecting the lives of everyone on the
planet. The first is entertainment (done), the second is dangerous work (coming up), the third is
elderly care, and the last but not least is telepresence shopping, tourism, and assistance.
Imagine sitting at your computer and controlling a video game character through a mall or
market, except it's not a game; instead, it's a robot shopping for you in Tokyo while you relax in
London. You drive a legged humanoid robot about your size so you can get a good sense of what
would fit, and then you go for a walk to see what the countryside has to offer, with a live video
and audio feed so you can haggle. Nowadays, all modern technologies are designed to make you
explore the world; phone, radio, television, internet, but if trends continue, robots will soon
bring you into the world, everywhere and at the speed of thought. Mind and hands are the most
important place while you sit safely at home and run the show.