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    Robots replacing humans everywhere

    Now that California has given self-driving cars the legal go-ahead, the robot invasion is well and truly upon us. And they're everywhere: filling our prescriptions, parking our cars and even beating us at Jeopardy. Welcome to the world of robots.

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    Robot Helpers: Baxter is a friendly manufacturing robot designed to interact with humans.
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    Rethink Robotics
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    Pharmacy Robot: McKesson's ROBOT-Rx fills prescriptiosn with ease.
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    McKesson
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    Robot Bankers: By now we take them for granted, but ATMs are one of the original robots to replace real humans.
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    Robot Pack Mules: DARPA shows off its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) -- military speak for a robotic pack mule. These particular robot prototypes that can run, haul gear for soldiers, follow the leader and so on.
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    DARPA
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    Robot Parking: Full automation means no more tips.
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    Self-Driving Cars: Look ma, no hands! Which is nice because Steve Mahan (pictured), who is head of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, can't see.
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    Talking Phones: Don't forget, your smartphone is a robot and now it's started to listen, understand and even talk back.
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    Apple
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    Robot Chess Players: Millions of chess players watch as IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue takes on Gary Kasporav. In the end, the machines won.
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    IBM
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    Robotic Oil Drilling: Drilling for oil has never been more autonomous.
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    Robotic Drilling Systems
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    Robot Rentals: No humans, just DVDs. Sorry Blockbuster.
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    Robot Lawn Mowers: I never enjoyed cutting grass anyway.
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    Friendly Robotics
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    Robots that Understand: Post-Deep-Blue, IBM's new Watson computer understands natural human language and is really good at Jeopardy.
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    Robot Maids: The Roomba vacuum cleaner, one of the first household robots to go mainstream.
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    iRobot
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    Wall Street's Robot Invasion: By 2010, over 70% of equity trades in the US was composed of high-frequency trading, lightning fast, trades made by sophisticated computers and algorithms.
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    Military Drones: No need to risk human lives when you can send in an unmanned aerial vehicle.
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    U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson
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    Robot Nurses: Next time youre visiting a hospital, make way for Aethon TUG robots, currently deployed in about 135 hospitals. The bots can summon an elevator and wait in line, giving humans priority access.
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    Aethon
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    Robots replacing humans everywhere

    Now that California has given self-driving cars the legal go-ahead, the robot invasion is well and truly upon us. And they're everywhere: filling our prescriptions, parking our cars and even beating us at Jeopardy. Welcome to the world of robots.

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