Commentary On 'Robots Long Ago' By Felipe Johnson

In this day and age, new technology is everywhere, but it’s usually in the form of phones, computers, and, now, watches. However, we’re forgetting one, robots. Now, they’re still quite popular, but they’re mostly the ideals of science fiction worlds set so far into the future we’ve migrated to space. Is it really so farfetched of an idea, though, to think that maybe we could achieve that level? No, in fact and despite the spotlight being diverted away, we’re heading down the path to robo-world already. What a robot is and has been is quite a lenient description, but no one can deny how much they’ve already shaped our lives. According to the passage “Robots Long Ago” by Karen Brinkmann, “Today robots help people with everything from surgery
With new products constantly on the market, robots are often overshadowed, unless a big breakthrough is made. Robot business is a slow business after all. However, the changes being made affect people in ways they don’t even see. In the passage “Robot Farmers” by Felipe Johnson, Johnson tells the reader about what is being done in the agricultural field, a field that affects our whole being. According to the passage, a company named Blue River Technology has created a robot called “The LettuceBot, it does as follows; “The LettuceBot is programmed to analyze fields of lettuce at all stages of development. During the growing season, the robots roam the fields locating weeds and less healthy lettuce heads… they analyze soil for proper nutrients and moisture, alerting the farmer to where attention is needed.” That lettuce is lettuce we eat, and it’s being processed by a robot. Food that is used to keep us up and running is being processed by robots, and it’s still only the beginning of what the fabulous machines can do! Going back to Susan Calvin’s passage, “Robots on the Moon”, at the college Carnegie Mellon, students are working on something called the Astrobiotic Technology project. If completed and fully launched, the robot, which would live on the Moon, would allow people to put on a headset wired to the robot and see exactly what it was seeing in real time. This would allow regular people to see the Moon! That’s something many only thought they’d ever dream of seeing, and it’s happening. We’ve already come so far with robots; however, if we want to reach the dream of flying robo-maids we must reach a bit