| With life becoming more and more like science fiction | | | | routine surgeries with greater ease and less risk to |
| every day, it's sometimes easy to take things like | | | | the patient. These forward leaps in medical |
| robots for granted. However, the fact is that robots | | | | technology help increase the life expectancy and |
| have changed everything about how we live our daily | | | | quality of people around the world. |
| lives. Without robots, everything from production | | | | 4. FRIEND |
| methods to children's toys would be completely | | | | Otherwise known as the Functional Robot arm with |
| stunted. So here's a few robots that go down in the | | | | user-FrIENDly interface for Disabled people, this |
| history books as being particularly notable. | | | | care-providing robot allows the elderly or the disabled |
| 1. Unimate | | | | to perform daily tasks. As this product and others |
| Created by George Devol in the 1950's, Unimate was | | | | like it become more available, the freedoms of these |
| the first programmable robot. It was sold to General | | | | populations can be easily increased to help them live |
| Motors in 1960, and heralded in a new age of | | | | self-sufficient lives regardless of their physical state. |
| production that used robots to do the labor that | | | | 5. ASIMO |
| might be too dangerous for a human to do. A GM | | | | The kind of robot that fuels scifi thrillers everywhere, |
| factory in Trenton, New Jersey, used the Unimate to | | | | ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. It |
| lift hot metal from die casting machines, cutting down | | | | looks like a person, can walk like a person, recognize |
| on worker injury and increasing productivity. | | | | sounds and movements, and even recognize people. |
| 2. The Space Probes | | | | With its list of functions improving with every model, |
| Every space probes ever launched counts as a robot, | | | | this is the sort of robot that offers cutting edge |
| as they are unmanned and go places and distances | | | | technology and a series of ethical questions to lead |
| humans could never otherwise reach. Without these | | | | us into the twenty-first century. |
| probes, our knowledge of the outside universe would | | | | Other Useful Robots? |
| be almost nonexistent. | | | | As you can see, there have been a lot of useful |
| 3. The laparoscopic robot | | | | robots and robotic technology over the years. These |
| Used during many modern surgeries, the laparoscopic | | | | are just five of them. If there's a robot missing from |
| robot allows doctors to not only perform procedures | | | | our top five list, be sure to leave a comment and let |
| that were previously impossible, but to perform more | | | | us know. |