The One Task a Robot Cannot Do
From building cars to scanning the surface of Mars, there’s still one common task that keeps us very, very human.
Robots can do anything. The AI is developing at an exponential rate, not to mention the nano-mechanics and physical attributes of our helpful servants, the robots. They clean our floors, mow our lawns, build our cars, wash the windows of our tallest skyscrapers, cut metal, wood, paper or plastic into any shape we can dream of, and they never complain, never get tired, and require far-less servicing than we humans do when we try to accomplish these same tasks.
Lacking our fleshy, vital needs for air and food, we can send them into outer space, into the deepest parts of the ocean, or even into exploding volcanos or hurricanes to provide us with data, pictures, and materials so we can better understand our varied world(s). They already help us in surgeries, manufacturing, and some are even programmed to play with our dog and give them treats. Robots will perform critical tasks we can’t even dream of yet, as an extension of our infinite imagination, to supplant our limited human capabilities.
But they cannot sort, fold and put away our laundry.
Think about the functions involved requiring the billions of brain cells we’ve cultivated and trained over the millennia to do this one, ignorable, yet entirely…
