Robots Looking For Your Job?

As if human competition isn't enough, now we have robots adapting to prepare themselves to fit better into the workplace, ultimately being cheaper than humans, and in a number of cases, replacing them.

Well, at least the manufacturers of robots are responding to needs in the workplace and adapting in order to place their robots in an larger number of places.

"Big robots were often behind fences," Jeff Burnstein, president of the trade group Robotic Industries Assn. "Now, we’re seeing movement in making robots more intrinsically safe so they can work side-by-side with humans."

The changing market conditions for robots is significantly increasing demand, as it will grow for personal robots along from $1.16 billion in 2009 to an estimated $5.26 billion by 2015.