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Description: Retro Robot is a step back in time to the 1950's, to the tin toys, and the 50's concepts of the future. This stationery has been designed to look like the cardboard box packaging that a tin robot would come in. The colors used and the ideas about robots and images of space are all authentic in style. Notice the classic word "Acme" which has been commonly used as a brand name throughout cartoons from the 1950's on up. This paper is designed for you to write on the chest of the robot. History of Robots

Robots were designed to do the back breaking dirty work that most people have done since the dawn of time and have hated most of the time. Robots are the industrial work force of the future. The development of robots and their use in the main stream workforce has mostly been due to industrial competition. Robots help companies manufacture products cheaper and better. Robots are more reliable and capable of performing the same tasks repeatedly in assembly line production. Robots will eventually replace all human labors, while humans will monitor the robots by directing and controlling their functions.

Robots are machines who perform predetermined tasks through automation. Typically robots can perform many different tasks and sometimes all at once. Because of the complexity of robots at the present time, many people believe that robots are self-directed, but in reality a robot only performs what it is designed and programmed to do. A programmed robot is in effect an extension of human actions and thought replicated over and over.

Today many robots employ artificial intelligence, however no robots have autonomy, they are slaves to humans, a servant.

Currently there are two types of robots, a single function robot like a car, and a multifunction robot like a computer. Multifunction robots are considered to be a new species amongst machines as they can move, perform tasks, and work based on stipulations. Despite the robots ability to multitask everything they do has been programmed and predetermined by a human. Robots can be reprogrammed at anytime. Unlike other machines robots are designed to be manipulators that can change its function if desired by the programmer.

The ideal robot should be able to move and manipulate, change functions, and follow orders much like most humans. Since robots are just a glorified machine, this means they have been around since ancient times. The idea of the robot as a zombie slave servant however, first came into being in 1921 with Karel Capek’s play “Rossum’s Universal Robot.” The word robot means worker in Czechoslovakian. Until that time the word robot did not exist in the English vocabulary, although the concepts of the slave worker did.

Currently robots are being designed to look, act and perform like humans. Those who are currently developing robots, want robots to have emotions, feelings, and real intelligence. Especially since some scientist hope that is the way to immortality. They want robots to have imagination so as to draw upon their own memory. The eventual idea is to create the cyborg. Other names for robots are, android, droids, cyborg and humanoid.

In time all manufactures will use robots, and their will be robots in homes. Perhaps even people will switch over to becoming robots. Pretty crazy, I’d rather be human my self!

Currently Japan leads the world in robots, they not only use them to make more robots but in all aspects of manufacturing. Many human laborers fear the robot and are upset by them as they have and will take away jobs. When robots replace humans for labor those people have no other job they can fulfill as often times they are specialized.

The true robot thinks for itself, maintains itself and reproduces itself, but in this case it is no longer a robot but a human. The ultimate appeal of robots is that they will look and act like humans but do everything for humans that they don’t want to do themselves. We want robots and yet we fear robots as robots take away jobs and perhaps they might take over.

The fear of robots taking over has brought about the three laws of robotics.

1. A robot may not hurt a person or allow a person to be hurt.
2. Robots must follow all orders given by humans unless they conflict with the first law.
3. A robot must protect itself as long as it does not conflict with the first two laws.

However the makers of robots do not have to go by these laws, thus there is no guarantee that robots won’t kill humans. Even today we see the governments use of robots in combat and their desire to make a fighting robot for the field. The largest drive in robotics began with the Manhattan project to build the nuclear bomb. Scientist needed a way to handle plutonium and robotic arms were the answer. Another major advancement was with the space race and sending mankind to the moon. Today robots are controlled from earth to places in outer space such as satellites and the Mars rover.

Prepare for the robotic invasion, resistance is futile!