ction - Increasing market pressures in the meat sector have been the major motivation for the use of automation. The key drivers leading to the use of robotics have been the need to improve work conditions, control the processes and increase yield, while maintaining hygiene standards. Employers in this industry are also faced with a shortage of skilled labor and the increasing demand to reduce price while improving quality and safety in the plant. Security systems - robots that routinely patrol night after night providing asset protection, situation assessment, and environmental monitoring. Military - patrol warehouses where high-value, high-risk materiel is stored. Mobil robots Used for mapping rough terrain and hunting for land mines and many more uses. ROBOTS OF THE FUTUREFifty years, tops, until the robots succeed us, says Hans Moravec, director of Carnegie Mellon's Mobile Robot Lab. "When you compare the evolution of mental abilities in animals to similar abilities in machines, robot evolution is going about 10 million times faster." The director of Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, speculates that the ultra-intelligent robots of the future, like the predatory machines of the Terminator movies, may eradicate most humans. This may not be as far-fetched as one might think, with the advent of the global web and the sharing of knowledge. The computers that control the robots are connected to better facilitate the manufacturing process. As the network goes ever larger there is the possibility that it might become self-aware. There are even people who believe that the robot and its artificial intelligence is the next step in the evolutionary chain. Whatever the beliefs, our dependence on the robot continues to increase. Medicine is one of the largest growing industries. As humans quest for longer and healthier lives, the robot is become one of the main tools. Procedures like corrective eye sur...
