Robotics is bogey man to scare the uninformed.
Robotics and automation create many jobs, often more than they replace.
Automation generates higher throughput and higher quality, lower cost goods.
To fully automate our country to the level of automation the scaremongers predict would take a full generation of massive industrial output and create an economic boom that would last for several lifetimes.
Back in the day, we used to ask ourselves how increasing complex technology and computer systems would be used by the great uneducated masses.
Well, look at how high tech Obama Phones are being operated quite successfully by ghetto hoods with a first grade education to see a glimpse of the future
Here’s the question...... when does automation become robotics?
Is not every robot an automated process?