In the mid-twentieth century when the computer and its applications were starting to bring changes to the world, sociologist David Reisman had something stuck in his mind. He wondered what people would do once machine automation comes to effect and humans have no compulsion to do daily physical chores and strain their brain to come up with solutions. He was excited to see what people would do with all the free time.

More than half a century later when the world has exactly what Reisman wondered, humans are still working on a full-time scale. Work alleviated by industrious machines such as robotics systems has only freed humans to create more elaborate new tasks to be laboured over. To counter attack all the predictions of the previous century, machines gave humans more time to work and not to relax.

Like how we currently imagine robots taking over the human society and doing all the work by themselves including physical and intellectual labour without human assistance as they are well programmed and set to adapt to any environment and take the accurate decision without human help, the previous century people too dreamed that robots will take over all the physical work during the era of the space race. But today, robots are used for their intelligence more vigorously than their physical assistance. Humans can only teach robots and make them follow instructions up to an extent. So when humans lack, machine learning makes its way to discipline robotics.

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