Robotics · lesson 9 of 30 · free

Robots and people — Robotics for kids

Robots are best at jobs that are dull (the same task all day), dirty or dangerous, and jobs that need great strength or exact measuring. People are better at caring for others, inventing new ideas, making friends and deciding what is fair. That is why robots and people work as a team: the robot welds a thousand car doors, and people design the car, check the work and look after one another. A robot does not have feelings, even if it shows a smiley face.

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Each does its best part — “robots repeat, lift and go into danger; people care, create and decide”

  1. Robots do well: dull, dirty, dangerous, heavy and exact jobs (welding, lifting, deep-sea work).
  2. People do better: caring, creating, making friends and judging what is fair.
  3. People stay in charge and make the big decisions.

Use it for: Talking about jobs of the future, value education and EVS lessons on how machines help people.

Worked example: 🤝 Who usually does this better — a robot or a person? “weld 1000 car doors” → a robot

  1. Welding the same door 1000 times is dull, hot and must be exact every time.
  2. That is a job robots do well.

Check: “comfort a sad friend” needs a person ✓

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