Close Window > Moving to another question will save this response. Question 7 of 21 > >> Question 7 30 points Save Answer Will Robots Replace People in Manufacturing? For the past four decades, robots have been incorporated into manufacturing assembly lines in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Robots do heavy lifting, welding, applying glue, and painting. People still do most of the final assembly of cars, especially when installing small parts or wiring that needs to be guided into place. For most manufacturing work, it has been less expensive to use manual labor than it is to own, operate, and maintain a robotics system, given the tasks that robots can perform. But this is changing. Robots have become smaller, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable, and their uses are widening. New robot models can work alongside humans without endangering them and help assemble all types of objects, as large as aircraft engines and as small and delicate as smartphones, They can also sense whether parts are being asembled correctly. Robots are becoming easier to operate. Companies no longer need a software engineer to write program code to get a robot to perform a task. With some of today's robots, you can simply push a button, turn the robot's arm, and move it through the operation you want it to perform. The robot learns by doing. The Boston Consulting Group predicts that by 2025 the share of tasks performed by robots will rise from a global average of about 10 percent across all manufacturing industries to about 25 percent. Does this mean that robots will take over the production line? Unlikely. They still lack the flexibility, delicacy, and insight provided by humans. For example, today's collaborative robots often have to slow down or stop whenever people veer into their paths, disrupting production. Sales have been disappointing for Baxter, a two-armed collaborative robot from Rethink, which is used primarily for simple tasks such as moving materials, picking up parts, and packing or unpacking boxes. The robot's speed is restricted by safety considerations. For all their recent advances, robots still can't duplicate a human being's fine motor skills in manipulating materials and small parts. Robots still have trouble dealing with soft or floppy material, such as cloth or bundles of electrical wire. Although robots are good at reliably and repeatedly performing defined tasks, they're not good at adapting. As robots become more widespread, manufacturing tasks performed by humans will become higher level and more complex. Workers will be expected to supervise and perhaps even program robots, and there will be fewer low-level manufacturing jobs. 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Companies no longer need a software engineer to write program code to get a robot to perform a task. With some of today's robots, you can simply push a button, turn the robot's arm, and move it through the operation you want it to perform. The robot learns by doing. The Boston Consulting Group predicts that by 2025 the share of tasks performed by robots will rise from a global average of about 10 percent across all manufacturing Industries to about 25 percent. Does this mean that robots will take over the production line? Unlikely. They still lack the flexibility, delicacy, and insight provided by humans. For example, today's collaborative robots often have to slow down or stop whenever people veer into their paths, disrupting production. Sales have been disappointing for Baxter, a two-armed collaborative robot from Rethink, which is used primarily for simple tasks such as moving materials, picking up parts, and packing or unpacking boxes. The robot's speed is restricted by safety considerations. For all their recent advances, robots still can't duplicate a human being's fine motor skills in manipulating materials and small parts. Robots still have trouble dealing with soft or floppy material, such as cloth or bundles of electrical wire. Although robots are good at reliably and repeatedly performing defined tasks, they're not good at adapting. As robots become more widespread, manufacturing tasks performed by humans will become higher level and more complex. Workers will be expected to supervise and perhaps even program robots, and there will be fewer low-level manufacturing jobs. Workers will need more sophisticated skills to succeed in tomorrow's manufacturing plants. Source Bombery. 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