The Development of Robots 機器人的發展

Robots， becoming increasingly prevalent in factories and industrial plants throughout the world， are programmed and engineered to perform industrial tasks without human intervention. Many of today’s robots are employed in the automotive industry， where they are programmed to take over such jobs as welding and spray painting automobile and truck bodies.

機器人在全世界的工廠內日益普及，人們對它們進行編程和設計，使其在無人情況下執行工業任務。現今，許多機器人用于汽車工業，人們對其編程，從事如汽車和卡車車身焊接、噴漆之類的工作。

What makes a robot a robot and not just another kind of automatic machine？ Robots differ from automatic machines in that after completion of one specific task， they can be reprogrammed by a computer to do another one. As an example， a robot doing spot welding one month can be reprogrammed and switched to spray painting the next. Automatic machines， on the other hand， are not capable of many different uses; they are built to perform only one task.

是什么使機器人變成機器人而不是其他的自動化機器呢？機器人與自動化機器的區別在于：機器人完成一項特定工作后，它們可以被電腦重新編程去執行另一項任務。比如，一個機器人做了一個月的點焊，可以被重新編程，并在下個月轉向噴漆。相反，自動化機器卻沒有許多不同的用途，它們只能執行一項任務。

The next generation of robots will make critical decisions. These future robots will have plenty of work to do. They will work as gas station attendants， firemen， housekeepers， and security personnel. Anyone wanting to understand the industry of the future will have to know about robotics.

下一代機器人將能做出關鍵性的決定。未來的機器人將會做大量工作。它們可以做加油站服務人員、消防人員、房屋管理員和安全人員的工作。任何想了解未來工業的人必須懂得機器人技術。

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