Robotics In The Workplace

For the past few decades, the speed at which the technology progresses is very impressive. In fact, mankind has stepped into a new age where everyone is being serviced by the products of technology. Speaking of innovative technology, the field of robotics epitomizes a great technological success. Indeed, the field of robotics has grown impressively since its conception. It also provides some of the most useful technologies to mankind, more especially because robots can be programmed to work. To the perspective of normal people, the existence of robots in the industrial field implies that the work will be done faster and more precisely. Although industrial robots aim for efficiency with the purpose of helping mankind, there are other implications

First, I insist that there should be a regulatory board defining whether the use of robots in the workplace is more advantageous than having human workers. The regulatory board should examine if (1) the tasks require precision, (2) the tasks are dangerous for humans to handle, or (3) the tasks require the identification of matters that is impossible for a robot to quantify (i.e. emotions). If the regulatory board allows the use of robots in a certain workplace, the industry should accommodate for the loss of the jobs of the human workers by assigning them to other appropriate areas, such as quality control of the product made by the robots, or operators if the robots have an operator required system. Finally, before allowing robots in the workplace, the robots must meet these requirements: (1) the robots are programmed such that it cannot directly harm a human being, (2) the robots are programmed perfectly (i.e. there are no loopholes), and (3) the robots must be artificial moral agents. To better understand my position, let us examine the implications of allowing robots in the

Regardless of the level of work, human workers have an unpredictable tendency to deviate from the desired outcome of work resulting to errors, “misprecisions,” and inefficiencies. Unlike human workers, robots can be programmed to work repeatedly without deviating from the desired outcome of work. Assuming that the robots can be programmed perfectly, the products of robots have fewer errors, “misprecisions,” and inefficiencies. Needless to say, using robots as a substitute for human workers can be deemed advantageous when accounting for the quality of product or service (Ritzer