Are robots going to increase our quality of life?

[Nebulous]

Are robots going to increase our quality of life?

What do you think?

 

[MrDawn]

At hospitals it's good, but at grocery stores like Wal-Mart? No. People pretend to pay at the Self Check-Out and then proceed to shop lift.

Walmart's CEO has said the retailer may need to close down stores because of theft — and many of the company's customers and employees blame one growing feature of the chain for enabling shoplifting: self-checkout.

Walmart rolled out self-checkout to streamline operations and reduce labor needs — but employees and customers say it's causing a surge in theft

Walmart's CEO says theft is spiking and may lead to closures. Workers and shoppers say the real problem is self-checkout has made shoplifting easier.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Jimmy]

I think that robots can most defiantly help in certain areas of life. They will be good for high-risk jobs or scenarios that could preserve human life. Or complete certain tasks that would take humans a lot longer. But I do not like the idea of eventually using robots for majority of the day-to-day jobs.

 

[Nebulous]

If robots did everything for us, we'd have more time for forums 😛

 

[The Raven92]

Most definetly yes. But, they will make us so lazy it will rebound and make it even worse. We will use that free time for some dumb activities.

 

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I do not even want to think what 50 years is like