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There existed a time when people began to question their place in this competitive world where mostly machines dominated. This was during the height of the computer age when even the most intricate job such as putting together nuts and bolts or the easiest job like packing goods into boxes could be accomplished with the aid of a machine. However, people, after carefully considering all angles, became secure in their position that computers—even the most sophisticated ones—could never take the place of humans. Today, with the coming of automatons, machines that look more or less human, people are once again in doubt whether the various roles they play in society will eventually be supplanted.

Robots also previously called automatons are machines controlled by computers to maneuver and control objects as well as perform a job which man cannot handle alone. The concept of automated machines actually goes back to myths told about mechanical figures being brought to life. Through the years, people eventually found several avenues where robots could be of great aid, with as many as 700,000 robots in the industrialized world in 1995.

In the medical field, robots are no strangers. Anderson doctors have actually used such machines in the aid of their cause of saving and extending lives. In surgery, robots or the so-called surgical robotic arms are used by surgeons for operations requiring precision in movement. The arm is attached to a computer and allows surgeons a magnified view of body parts they are operating on; parts, which are otherwise difficult to see or cannot be seen with the naked eye. It also gives them a steady hold of instruments while allowing them to reach previously unreachable areas of the human body. Some robots are also used by physicians to monitor the patient’s progress while not being physically present. These are the virtual doctors, which are robots controlled by physicians in a remote setting. Basically, a physician can perform operations or treatments to the patient while being in a different location. This is especially useful in cases where the doctor has to travel, leaving the patient behind; or in cases where the patient cannot travel and has to desperately obtain the services of a specialist from another country. More amazing are the robots developed by the Israelite scientists, which to crawl in the human blood vessels. Such invention will indeed save many lives in cases of diseased arteries and veins blocking blood flow and so much more.

Although the thought of robots operating on the human body can be very scary for most, patients have to think that robots do not function independently. There have been many people who have had successful operations and positive outcomes because of the aid of robots. If not for robots, they would have lost their lives or the quality of their lives from loss of or poor body function. Of course, you can never force a patient into something he or she is not comfortable with. Doctors in Anderson should therefore explain and justify the use of robots, which have been deemed by others as an indispensable invention.