{"id":5228,"date":"2013-07-12T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"servant-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/servant-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots as Servants: the Current Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scara Industrial Robot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robots have been in service in industry such as assembly lines for some time, but they are not \u201cintelligent\u201d nor are they mobile. They are programmed to perform a single task \u2013 make a series of welds on an auto body, for example \u2013 over and over with great speed and accuracy. Their advantage is that they don\u2019t get bored, tired or distracted and don\u2019t require a potty break every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Americans are quite familiar with such devices as the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner by iRobot<\/a>, a similar unit will clean your pool. These are true robots as they do work independently of your input, they are not merely remote control devices, nor do they wander about aimlessly hoping to get the entire floor clean – eventually.\u00a0 While they do manage to go around obstacles, get themselves unstuck and run a spiral \u201cgrid\u201d of sorts to be sure the entire area is cleaned, they don\u2019t seek out dirt to collect, just suck up what they encounter.\u00a0 Another brand (Neato Robots) claims it’s version does not need to bump into obstacles, but uses laser range finding to explore the room ahead of it and map out a course to avoid contacting your furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n