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Robots replacing humans everywhere

By Fox News
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Robot Helpers: Baxter is a friendly manufacturing robot designed to interact with humans. (Rethink Robotics)

Pharmacy Robot: McKesson's ROBOT-Rx fills prescriptiosn with ease. (McKesson)

Robot Bankers: By now we take them for granted, but ATMs are one of the original robots to replace real humans. (AP)

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. (DARPA)

Robot Parking: Full automation means no more tips. (AP)

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. (AP)

Talking Phones: Don't forget, your smartphone is a robot and now it's started to listen, understand and even talk back. (Apple)

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. (IBM)

Robotic Oil Drilling: Drilling for oil has never been more autonomous. (Robotic Drilling Systems)

Robot Rentals: No humans, just DVDs. Sorry Blockbuster. (AP)

Robot Lawn Mowers: I never enjoyed cutting grass anyway. (Friendly Robotics)

Robots that Understand: Post-Deep-Blue, IBM's new Watson computer understands natural human language and is really good at Jeopardy. (AP)

Robot Maids: The Roomba vacuum cleaner, one of the first household robots to go mainstream. (iRobot)

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. (AP)

Military Drones: No need to risk human lives when you can send in an unmanned aerial vehicle. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)

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. (Aethon)