Advantages of robots
• Increased productivity, safety, efficiency, quality of products
• Can work in hazardous environments, no need for support
• Need no environmental comforts
• Work continuously w/o fatigue, boredom, etc.
• Have repeatable precision at all times
• Can be more accurate than humans
• Have many capabilities beyond those of humans
• Can process multiple stimuli/tasks simultaneously
Disadvantages of robots
• Robots can displace humans
• economic & social problems
• Can’t respond to unpredictable emergencies
• Safety measures needed to prevent injury to
• operators or other machines
• Although superior in some ways, robots have
• limited capabilities
• degrees of freedom, dexterity, sensors, vision
• systems,real-time response
• Costly
• economic & social problems
• Can’t respond to unpredictable emergencies
• Safety measures needed to prevent injury to
• operators or other machines
• Although superior in some ways, robots have
• limited capabilities
• degrees of freedom, dexterity, sensors, vision
• systems,real-time response
• Costly