Aidan's First "Super Essay"

 Aidan Piercy

Writing class

Mrs. Piercey

4/20/2016

The Amazing Jobs of Robots

                Did you know that a group of tiny robots, which weighed less than an apple, pulled a 2 ton car? Robots can do a lot of work, and we rely on them every day of our lives. Whenever you look on the internet, you are using a robot. When you drive your car, you are driving something made by a robot. Even when you eat something like cheese or drink milk, you owe your snack to the work of a robot. Robots help adults and children alike.

                Robots do a variety of jobs. These include jobs too terrifying, tough, and tedious for adults. Robots help adults so much, yet we take them for granted. Robots are tough enough, “brave” enough, and “patient” enough to do  jobs some adults would never dream of doing for a living.

                You may think bombs, chemicals, and radioactivity are cool. Well I bet you would think differently if you had to disarm and handle them. Robots do dangerous jobs like this every day. After battles, artillery shells, which have not detonated yet, may be left on the ground. Alarmingly, without robots, men would have to disarm these by hand. Disarming these shells, robots keep adults from having to risk their lives every day! Imagine if your boss called you from the police station and said, “You have to disarm a bomb stuck in the house on Washington Street!” What would you say? Thankfully you would probably never be in that situation. Robots would do the job for you. The police force uses robots to disarm bombs, and this has saved many lives. Have you changed your mind about the excitement of bombs, chemicals, and radioactivity?

                Now you know that robots do jobs too terrifying for adults, but did you know they do astonishingly tough jobs? These jobs, which range from dangerous procedures in the surgery room to missions in the military, are jobs only robots can do. Removing tumors, robots help surgeons with surgeries they never would have dreamed of doing before. Amazingly, a robot snake that surgeons place in the patient’s body, slithers around and helps the surgeons by finding what is in the patient’s body. It doesn’t harm the patient. The military uses robots too. A dog named the alpha dog, which is immune to bullets, can carry supplies over long distances. It listens to verbal commands and watches visual signals. Robots do tough jobs day after day, but they never complain about it.

                Hopefully, you now understand the many helpful jobs that robots perform. You know robots do terrifying and tough jobs, which many people would never dream of doing, every day. Did you know that  they do tedious jobs too? Imagine that you wake up in the morning, get dressed, shower, eat breakfast, and drive out to work. You park your car and slowly walk into the building that you work at every day. After the drive you feel tired, but your boss says you need to work on a big job today. “You need to check for any cracks on that jumbo jet over there. If you miss a crack, you’re fired!” What do you do? Crawling around on an enormous passenger jet, you check for the tiniest cracks that could cause explosions that may even kill passengers in the plane! Because of the lives at stake, you would have to check very carefully for any of the deadly cracks. Thankfully, you will never have to do jobs like this. I am sure you know what would do the job for you! Robots would! Robots crawl over passenger jets, checking for the cracks that could kill many people. Unlike humans, they don’t become bored and make mistakes. Robots are the perfect ones for the job. Some robots “stand” at an assembly line all day handling the same car parts, day after day, week after week, year after year. You now see all the tedious tasks robots do for adults.

                Robots are very helpful. They always take on the same unappealing jobs, but they never complain. You can imagine what it would be like without robots. Humans would risk their lives every day. With robots, many people can do interesting jobs, and not jobs that are to terrifying, tough, and tedious, for adults to do easily or comfortably.

                It is clear robots help adults, but did you know that robots do lots of jobs to help kids too? Robots help kids in many different ways. They help kids by showing their teachers how kids interact and learn. Some help kids cope with physical disabilities like missing arms. Some even help kids with chores at home.

                Did you know that some robots help children in schools? Interestingly, one robot even came into a school acting as a usual fifth grade student! This robot immediately recognized all of the fifth grade students by their names, which it had been programmed to do, and fit in well with the school environment. Teachers learned more about kids’ reactions more easily with a robot in class. They created a better learning experience for the students too. Talking and playing with kids, the robot engaged with the students, making them feel more comfortable at school. Helping kids learn is very important and the robot seems to be doing a very good job with it. Now you know that robots help a lot with children at school. 

                 Robots help children at school, and they also help children with disabilities. Imagine you are a child who is missing an arm. What could you do for fun? You would not be able to play basketball, or baseball,  and you couldn’t swim easily. Thankfully for children who are missing arms, robots can help them play. Robots can be made into arms! One kind of arm is a comfortable Lego robot arm. This prosthetic arm has an attachment at the end where kids can make their own Lego creations. Imagine all of the choices you have! You could make a plow, or a backhoe loader attachment. Different sockets, which are attached to the end of the arm, can be attached so that the arm “grows” with the owner of the arm. The engineers who made the arm estimate that the price of the arm will be around $5,000.

                      Robots help with many things that change children’s lives. Helping teachers see how children interact with each other, robots help kids learn. They help kids cope easily with physical disabilities, which is very important, and help them have fun. Astonishingly, robots help kids at home. Maybe you know what I mean.  Robots help with chores! Robots help by washing the floor, vacuuming and doing dishes. Robots can be very helpful at home. Some even become part of the family. Some can answer questions. Robots make it so that kids can have more free time, and don’t have to do all the chores. These robots are small. It doesn’t take much work to get them started. They also are tough. Robots help children in many ways.

                Robots are so helpful. Children can learn more easily and comfortably with robots. Kids can use robots to do internet courses. They can help kids cope. They help them work. Robots do so much work for kids. I think kids around the world should give three cheers for robots. Imagine what life would be like if kids did not have any robots.

                Robots help adults and kids in very many ways. They help adults with terrifying jobs, and they help kids learn. They help adults with tough jobs, and kids with limiting disabilities. Robots help adults with very tedious jobs, and kids with boring chores. Robots help us in the present time with these jobs. They may help us even more in the future. Imagine if you were out on your deck one day waiting for your package to be delivered. Instead of looking out on the road, you look up in the sky. Suddenly you see something flying toward your deck. You immediately stand up to receive your package. A car flies down from the sky and floats high above your head. It carefully drops a package into your hands. As soon as the package touches your hands, the robot disappears into thin air. This is what some robots might do in the future. There may be disappearing delivery robots. Imagine if you were on the road and everyone had the same kind of car as you. Instead of turning onto the highway, you spin around on your seat and start talking to your friends. The car would turn for you! They are making cars like this! This is what the future of robots may look like.