10 works where robots replace humans
The debate about whether robots will replace people in certain jobs is not new. A study by the Nomura Research Institute, a Japanese think tank, and the University of Oxford , showed that over the next 10 to 20 years, almost half of the jobs in Japan can be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence.
According to the standards set by researchers, if more than 60 percent of the workflow can be carried out using a robot or artificial intelligence , it falls into the category of “replaceable”.
Similar studies were carried out by scientists from Oxford University in the UK and the USA, and the ratio of “displaced jobs” reached 35 and 47 percent, respectively.
Let's look at the top 10 jobs that are in this risk group.
Bartender
Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum Seas luxury cruise has already hired bartenders to mix drinks for guests on board. A robot named Monsieur knows the recipes of 300 cocktails and can make a drink in a few seconds.
Pharmacist
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) uses robots to dispense drugs. When a device receives a recipe, the robots are responsible for packaging and distribution. Robotic pharmacists can make sure that the drugs that patients receive do not cause adverse reactions in conjunction with the drugs currently being taken by patients. And MTS Medication Technologies developed the Omnicell M5000 robot , which prepares sets of drugs individually for each patient and distributes them into special “pockets” with the expectation of several days of taking medication.
Sapper
According to statistics from the US federal government, there are more than 450 troops in the country dealing with thousands of bomb-related issues. Some of them use robots to reduce risks.
Robot sapper in Afghanistan. Designed for the disposal of ammunition.
A robot controlled by a Baltimore police unit opens the second of two suspicious packages left at the Confederation Monument in Baltimore on December 12, 2015.
Cleaner
Robotic cleaners appeared relatively recently, but are already widely known in households. Users say the results are significantly higher than traditional vacuum cleaners. IRobot, for example, has already sold more than 10 million such devices.
There are several window cleaning robots, including HOBOT and WINBOT, which automatically scan and calculate the window size, and then calculate how to clean the glass most efficiently and quickly.
Bank teller
Customers will not see a single clerk in 16 Coastal Federal Credit Union branches, since all their work is carried out by robotic bank tellers. According to the official representative of the bank, the introduction of robots led to a 40 percent decrease in the number of cashiers hired. And such banking operations as issuing loans will soon be completely automated .
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank tests NAO robotic receptionist in Nagoya, Japan, October 26, 2015 [Photo / IC]
Warehouse employee
At the Amazon Logistics Center, robots work with employees in a warehouse in Bielany Wroclawsk, near Wroclaw, Poland, October 15, 2015 [Photo: PAP / Maciej Kulczyński]
There are robots that are designed to automate logistics in places like warehouses. For example, Fetch and Freight are designed to work in small storage areas.
Amazon.com has its own army of robots operating in the company's warehouse . With their help, an employee can scan 300 units of products per hour, compared with 100 units previously.
Soldier
General Robert Cohen says that by 2030, a quarter of US combat units can be replaced by robots . The U.S. Army is striving to be transformed into an army that will be smaller and can easily deploy in different places . Robots will help to cope with this mission. DARPA is actively committed to creating search and rescue robots such as Atlas . So is Spot from Boston Dynamics , a 160-pound four-legged robot that looks like a dog:
Discovery Lab developed the initial prototype of the TeleBot, which combines telepresence to enable police and military personnel with disabilities to work as patrol officers.
Farmer
According to analysts from IBIS World, robots can show good results when it comes to agricultural work , such as inspecting the soil, driving tractors and harvesting . Many robots are currently used for weeding and harvesting.
Journalist
Sports and business reporters fall into the category of the most susceptible to substitution . In fact, a program developed by Narrative Science can write short, varied news for customers.
But it is believed that robots do poorly with creative texts, so novelists and art authors do not need to worry about their workplace.
Lawyer
Clients pay millions of dollars to lawyers for work that robots can do better . Blackstone Discovery Company provides services for viewing cases, finding phrases and obtaining values using robots.
Law is not the most creative industry in the world. But will robots ultimately be able to do the work of lawyers? Robot & Hwang may someday become a competent local cyberspace attorney , but he won’t win a strong appeal group.
The initiative to replace lawyers with robots comes from Silicon Valley. The basis of a startup called Lex Machina is an information resource at IP Litigation Clearinghouse at Stanford University:
