Robotics

Disruptive technologies like fire, the printing press, oil, and television have dramatically changed both the planet we live on and mankind itself, most often in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. In pre-history these disruptions took place over hundreds of years. With the time compression induced by our rapidly advancing technology, they can now take place in less than a generation. We are currently at the edgeof one such event. In ten years robotic systems will flyour planes, grow our food, explore space, discover life saving drugs, fight our wars,sweep our homes and deliverour babies. In the process, this robotics driven disruptive event will create anew 200 billion dollar global industry and change life as you now know it, forever. Just as my children cannot imagine a world without electricity, your children will never know a world without robots. Come take a bold lookat the future and the opportunities for Mechanical Engineers that wait there. The Three Laws of Robotics are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with theFirst Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law