Surgical robots are becoming more and more precise everyday. There are some human-sized robots that work in hospitals that can lift and transport patients. The Xenex robot only takes 10 minutes to disinfect a hospital patient room with UV light. Tug robots work in San Francisco hospitals today that deliver food and medicine, pick up waste and laundry and can navigate hallways without crashing into people. Robots would be a great investments for hospitals that get busy quickly. Vinod Khosla, Silicon Valley investor, once said something that has resonated with the medical field for years. He said that eventually, technology would replace 80% of doctors due to machinery being cheaper and more accurate than humans. He even went on to say that eventually humans would no longer need doctors at all.
In 2015 the information technology research firm Gartner predicted that one–third of existing jobs will be replaced by software, robots, and smart machines by 2025. Blue collar as well as white collar workers such as financial and sports reporters, marketers, surgeons, and financial analysts were in danger of being replaced. If people whose jobs are replaced cannot acquire new skills or improve their existing ones, they will no longer have a job. This means humans need to continue to grow intellectually and skillfully. People need to contemplate on what will make them irreplaceable even with a robot.
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