Throughout the years, technology has improved drastically – creating machines and devices that were unimaginable 50 years ago. and maybe the foremost advanced and interesting of society’s technological advancements is robots – but it's also the foremost misunderstood. In fact, in step with recent Pew Research, over 70 percent of American citizens express concern about a few worlds within which machines perform many of the tasks done by humans. Fortunately, some believe humans and robots can coexist and work together harmonized and are working to debunk many of the fears people have about them. Mouser Electronics Inc., a number one semiconductor and electronics component distributor based in Fort Worth, TX, and celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, have teamed up again for the fourth consecutive year for his or her Empowering Innovation Together program. This year’s program is named Generation Robot, which features five videos filmed across the globe, including within the U.S., Germany, and Japan. Mouser’s goal is to achieve innovators around the globe by showing how robots have a positive impact on humanity and alter how people see the chance of interacting with them. Throughout the Generation Robot series, the complete spectrum of robotics is examined, as will the understanding of how robots not only have a technological impact on society, but also a social and moral one. The video series begins with the Imahara visiting the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech and speaking with the managing director, Dr. Magnus Egerstedt. There, he explores several aspects of robots, like the fundamentals of the machines, myths and misconceptions, moreover because the hopes for, and fears of, the advancement of robot technology. In the video, Dr. Egerstedt mentions that robots want to be about engineering science, but now modern robots involve psychology because these machines are going to be working together with humans and thus they have to know people. The second video, which takes place in Augsburg, Germany, dives into the important meaning of robots and humans working together, likewise because of the way this interaction will benefit society. The third video, which comes calling in mid-July, will target the all-robot-staffed hotel in Nagasaki, Japan, where Imahara investigates the way robots behave utilizing only AI.
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