Robots are good for society

Since my opponent forfeited the second round, I presume that he has lost the debate, but I will still continue my arguments in this round.Today there a lot people who despise the idea of integrating robots and machines into society, yet most of them are using them everyday without hesitation. Many of them probably have a computer, car, cell phone, refrigerator, washing machine, etc. All of these things are machines that we depend on everyday which are designed to carry out a task that we can't do or can't do better ourselves. Robots are just the same thing except smarter; They will be designed to be autonomous as this will allow humans to focus on other things and not always have to constantly monitor the robots. We will be able to command a robot when, where, what, how, and how often to do a certain task. We will be able to tell it when to wake up and when to shut itself off.Advantage of RobotsThey'll do most of the work for us. This includes all the boring, monotonous, dangerous, and/or difficult tasks.The humans will program the robots. Also humans will do the visualization, designing, and planning of things, and robots will do the actual work to make those designs and plans a reality. Robots will give humans more leisure time, hobby time, spending-with-family-and-friends time, and NOT-sitting-on-a-couch-all-day-staring-into-space time (unless you're retarded or really enjoy being a boring person). They ultimately free our time as well as significantly increase our standard of living.Disadvantage of RobotsThey will displace most workers from traditional jobs. It is happening now and will continue to happen as we continuously improve technology and automate things. Again robots are only seen as a disadvantage within the perspective of our current monetary system. Fundamentally, robots in the workplace are a disadvantage for regular, hard working, honest people but are a super advantage for the businesses and corporations who only care about the profits and the bottom line. Unlike humans, robots can work 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. They never complain, get sick, take lunch breaks or vacations, have pensions, 401ks, and other liabilities associated with human workers. In the long run robots/automation/technology with a monetary economic system are simply incompatible. Yes, a monetary system worked fine and dandy in the past because computers and technology were not as advanced as they are today. Times have changed my friends. humans have two options:1. We keep our old monetary system and halt the progression of technology from society so that we can keep our traditional jobs, OR 2. we allow technology, robots and automation to take their course, but this means that we will need to change our economic/social system to a more updated one. I think the latter is more sensible. An alternative system being proposed that would properly facilitate this progression of technology is called a "resource-based economy" by the Venus Project's Jacque Fresco. Now, I don't want to get into a debate between a resource-based economy vs. a free market enterprise system because it would be going too much off-topic. But basically, a resource-based economy will allow technology, robotics, and automation to flourish, all for the purpose of enhancing the well-being of humans without the use of money. It is a 21st century, scientific, holistic approach that integrates all the factors/variables such as science, technology, energy, environment, resources, and social behaviors to solve our biggest problems today.To further understand the resource-based economy, please watch this video: and check out: http://www.thevenusproject.com...Misuse of robots and technology:Today many of the robots and technology are used to create weapons and other military applications. No wonder so many people fear robots and technologies. It isn't technology and robots that should be feared. It's those naive people who run the military and related organizations to use technology for the purpose of control, killing, and destruction that humans should fear. We no longer live in the medieval and colonial times. We are living in the 21st century, in the technical/digital/information age, within a socially interconnected global economy. There is no need for this competitive divide-and-conquer mentality anymore.Will Robots enslave and kill humans?Don't get me wrong; it could be a real possibility. At some point in the future, computers will become so powerful and so complex, they will ultimately reach the human level capacity to think. This can be a very dangerous situation because robots could start reasoning and making its own decisions. Though notice that I say "capacity". Computers might be extremely powerful and complex but they are only as smart and dangerous as what we program in their chip. If we don't want these machines to take over, we simply should not program them to think and reason. Also many people think that robots should have feelings and consciousness because this is what we've seen in Hollywood movies. Although it's possible, there would be no significant advantage for us to give robots consciousness, and in fact it's dangerous. Of course, we could give robots the "appearance" of being able to reason and exert emotions to a certain extent, but we should never give them true conscious ability to think for themselves. Giving robots the ability to consciously think for themselves simply deviates from the purpose of having robots. The main purpose of having robots is to be subservient to humans and do our work. Period. It is for humans to reason, to think critically, and to plan. Additionally, we are naturally supposed to genuinely interact, relate, share emotions with other humans, not robots. Giving robots real consciousness and emotions is just unnecessary, unnatural, could lead us to social/relationship problems, and possibly endanger human civilization. As mentioned before, robots would not be designed to be smarter than what their assigned tasks requires them to do, no matter how powerful computers get. We would only make robots smart enough to handle the necessary algorithms and computations, but dumb enough to passively accept and do all the dirty work for us. Any smarter than that is unnecessary and could lead us into unintended consequences. Ultimately, more powerful computers would allow robots to do more work at a given time and in a much faster rate.More applications of Robots:Medicine/Surgery:Manufacturing/Production:#t=80Personal: