Robert Cherone, 45, was killed at Palermo's Pizza West Milwaukee facility after being crushed by a robotic machine, prompting an OSHA investigation.

The new sets of robots in development otherwise known as autonomous fighting machine robots, robot soldiers, assaultive robotic machines, etc. have received serious curiosity from the scientists who are expecting nothing less than perfect from the robots. The concern being shown in the development of the robot is based on the fact that they are being programmed to kill humans on a battlefield, detonate bombs, and carry out other assaultive military activities, etc. when all the above points were considered it means that any mistake of programming in the robots could become a potential danger to the developer or end-users. Current online debate on the above issue became serious when a newly completed military robot was displayed when it was having a gun shooting test. According to the developers, the robot was confirmed to be more than 80% accurate in carrying out commands relating to military actions. However, some scientists throwback hundreds of questions as to when the robot will come into full military operations, how much would be the cost of acquiring such robot, how efficient it can be in its functions, etc. though not yet commercialized such robot may come with some restrict laws on who buys and operates it.

Amazon's Sparrow robot can pick individual items for packaging. Warehouse robots are finally reaching their holy grail moment: picking and sorting objects with the dexterity of human hands. Amazon has robotic arms that can pick and sort cumbersome items like headphones or plushy toys before they've been boxed. FedEx has piloted a similar system, which it uses in some warehouses to sort mail of various sizes. And other companies are making progress, too.

How many times in the past week do you think your life was affected by a robot? Unless you have a robot vacuum cleaner, you might say that robots had no real impact on your life. Let's take a look at some of the ways robots are being used right now but that you probably have no idea about. Read more: Why R2D2 could be your child's teacher sooner than you think Before we start, we need to define what actually is a robot. There is no official definition of what constitutes a robot, but many roboticists (like me) consider it to be a machine that moves, or has moving parts, and that makes basic decisions while interacting with the world.

Robots perform delicate surgeries, are sent to explore and analyze Martian soil, or accompany elderly patients in their everyday life in the form of friendly baby seal pets. Advances in design and automation of robotic machines have been achieved by understanding and mimicking how living systems evolve, sense, and adapt to their environment. Yet, the range of motions, velocities, and functions of today's robots are still very far from those observed in the living animals such as cephalopods, squeezing through narrow bottlenecks in a few seconds, or even mollusks, able to grind and chew rocks. The quest, however, is not to boldly recreate synthetically living systems but to build machines with a similar level of capabilities in response to specific technological needs. Biotechnology, security or exploration may indeed require autonomous machines with not only well-defined movement accuracy, conformability, actuation speed, but also other characteristics including temperature resistance, mechanical resilience, and optical transparency which may not be found in nature.