Why are robots not equal to humans?  - Digital Teammates

Robots are great at performing tasks that involve processing digital data, as well as tasks that follow a specific pattern. There is a great number of such tasks, hence the growing trend of robotisation. However, humans have a much broader scopes of competences. It is, therefore, worth to make an attempt at answering the question – “Why are robots not equal to humans?”.First of all, robots are still not able to overcome obstacles related to physical access to telephones, printers, paper documents or tokens allowing additional authentication. However, I believe that these limitations will sooner or later be removed. A more difficult challenge to overcome will be to make robots understand communication in natural language nearly as well as humans. Although various technologies in this respect are developing rapidly, they still leave a lot to be desired. However, also in this area, robots are likely to reach a sufficient level of advancement for basic communication within a dozen or so ye...