哪些工作是机器人承担不了的（机器人能代替我们工作吗）

如果你正在做一项单调乏味的工作，你可能会认为机器人可以代替你做这项工作。但是，也许我们低估了技术已经对我们不得不做的活动有多大的帮助。随着人工智能的发展，我们可能会发现它完全取代了我们在工作场所的位置。

If you're in a job performing tedious tasks, you might think that a robot could do the work instead. But perhaps we underestimate how much technology already helps with the activities that we would otherwise have to do. And as artificial intelligence progresses we might find it replaces us in the workplace altogether.

目前，机器人技术正在为企业提供帮助，特别是在制造业，帮助人类更有效、有时更准确地执行工作。例如，对于网上购物来说，机器人在巨大的仓库中已经成为必不可少的。他们分类和移动数以百万计的各种形状和大小的物体，尽管仍然需要人类来挑选和分发货物。

For now, robotic technology is providing a helping hand for businesses, particularly in manufacturing, assisting humans in performing work more efficiently and sometimes more accurately. For online shopping, for example, robots have become essential in giant warehouses. They sort and move millions of objects of all different shapes and sizes, although humans are still needed to pick and distribute the goods.

机器人技术在工作场所的发展对一些企业有好处，那些研究、开发、建造和使用机器人的企业。英国政府估计，到2035年，人工智能可能为英国经济增加约6300亿英镑。但仍有一些机器人无法完成的任务，这是像Automata这样的公司面临的挑战。其联合创始人苏尔扬·钱德拉（Suryans Chandra）对BBC表示，他的技术将消除人类不喜欢、也不太擅长的枯燥、重复性工作，还将创造出可能取代这些工作的新工作。

The advancement of robotics in the workplace is good for some businesses; the ones who research, develop, build and use them. The British government estimates that by 2035, artificial intelligence could add around £630bn to the UK economy. But there are still tasks that robots can't yet do, and that's the challenge for companies such as Automata. Its co-founder, Suryansh Chandra, told the BBC that his technology will eliminate boring, repetitive jobs that humans don't like and aren't very good at, and also create new ones that are likely to replace them.

机器人最终将能够完成越来越多目前由人类完成的工作，这似乎是不可避免的，那么我们是否应该担心机器的崛起呢？一些专家担心，随着机器人取代人类工人，数十万个工作岗位可能会消失。经合组织（OECD）的一份报告显示，14%的工作岗位“面临自动化的高风险”，32%的工作岗位可能“彻底转型”，其中制造业风险最高。

It seems inevitable that robots will eventually be able to do more and more of the jobs that are currently performed by humans, so should we be worried by the rise of the machines? Some experts fear hundreds of thousands of jobs could disappear as robots replace human workers. A report by the OECD suggests that 14 percent of jobs are "at high risk of automation" and 32 percent of jobs could be "radically transformed", with the manufacturing sector at the highest risk.

但由于完全自动化还有一段路要走，现在我们必须与机器人同事并肩工作——在他们学会把我们赶出门外之前，我们要设法与他们和睦相处！

But as complete automation is some way off, for now we'll have to work side-by-side with our robot colleagues — and manage to get along with them before they learn to kick us out of the door!

重点词汇

artificial intelligence

人工智能

a helping hand

帮助，助（人）一臂之力

efficiently

有效地

accurately

准确地

essential

必不可少的

sort

挑拣，分类

distribute

分送

advancement

发展

eliminate

消除

repetitive

重复的

inevitable

不可避免的

automation

自动化

transformed

被彻底改变