Is It Better For Work Overall, Robots Or Humans?

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Who is better for work overall, robots or humans? Well, that depends for each job. What are humans? A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other species with a large brain and the capacity for speech. Robot according to wikipedia.. “Is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, usually an electromagnetic machine that is guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry.” Some people think that robots, can replace humans. I agree for some reasons and also disagree as well. They could replace humans in a shop but not in a court or as a lawyer, because nobody, program a robot to think like these jobs require. In a shop, they already have robots that can weld, cut, or do other …show more content…
The most popular job is a retail salesperson. Humans can obviously do this job, what about robots and their efficiency? Humans can convince the seller and and persuade them to buy this, and a robot well can repeat the what the product is and maybe answer a few questions but can not do what the humans persuading can do which is the main purpose of this job. Next is your average cashier. Is your average person able to take your things, scan them, and give you your money back if needed. Yes being that is the second highest employment job. But can a robot? I honestly think that a robot could do this job probably just as efficient as a human could. The robot could just pick up the things with a mechanical arm, and scan with another arm while putting the buyer 's things in the bag back in their cart, even while giving the money back if needed with a computer all at the same time. The robot could most efficiently do this job likely just as well as the human if not better. The last job I will talk about is the 6th most popular but important and what people around here are, waiters/waitresses. Humans obviously are able to this very efficiently with a lot of practice, but what about robots. Well let 's think about this robots could move around serve the food, but what if there was a ripple in the carpet and the robot tripped and dropped all of the food, well humans could recognise what to do at least. Also humans could serve the food to the right person, on the right table, but what about robots, could they they serve to the right person probably at the right table but not the right person sitting at the table. Also what if someone just took the food from the robot, it wouldn 't even know that it was gone. Also usually waiters and waitresses are required to pour glasses and refill as well, but what if the robot was a little off, or it poured too much. Maybe the person it is

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