Bionic Parts And Assembly Lines

By Author: Carolyn Clayton
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Just over 40 years ago, cartoons began depicting imaginary uses for robots. Robots were depicted as wonderful machines capable of performing household duties such as cleaning, cooking, and of course, helping children with homework. Robots were, and are still, depicted as having highly functional properties of intelligence.

Today robots are widely recognized and used as machines with highly intellectual skills. However, robots remain to be depicted as physically limited. Humans have developed and refined the way these machines can "think" but physically, they are still look and act like machines regardless of their degree of intellectual possibilities.

Some robots are so highly developed that they can perform portions of surgical procedures while guided by surgeons in remote locations. Any type of surgery takes extreme dexterity and skill, regardless of how "simple" a procedure it is claimed to be. The fact that a robot, a piece of highly functional and sophisticated machinery, can perform such intricate business means that a robotic device can be capable of anything a human can program it to do.

Robots can ...
... vacuum our living rooms, our pools and robotic devices can fly planes remotely. Robotic devices are programmed for space travel, experimentation and documentation. Robotic devices have been used for decades in motor vehicle production. These assembly lines are constantly redesigned and reconstructed to eliminate slower, inefficient processes.

Many of these processes became more costly as the cost of human wages increased. The demand for certain products, which could be more efficiently and quickly produced using robotic processes, increased as well. Companies had to restructure to accommodate this essential transition from the human assembly line to the sometimes completely automated one.

A few decades ago, there were also television programs based on the activities of bionic persons with super-human powers by virtue of their non-human composition. Currently, orthopedic replacements, such as knee and hip procedures, give people a new lease on life. These new robotic joints, made of titanium, are in a sense bionic.

Titanium joint replacements certainly do not give people super-human powers but they do restore strength and agility. They restore physical power and emotional and psychological strength. Man-made parts serve to help humans in many areas.

As a result of an aging population, there is an increase in demand of these intricate, bionic human parts. Consequently, they are constructed using robotic, computerized programs. Many of these programs can pick and place assembly-line items according to their size and type and even package them accordingly.
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