Table of Contents Hello Emerging Tech Careers Artificial Intelligence Scientist Materials Engineer Mechanical Engineer Programmer Robot Technician Robot Operator Can You Imagine Glossary Index About the Author 4 6 10 14 18 22 26 30 31 32 32
Hello Emerging Tech Careers In the past In the present Groundbreaking inventions made life easier in many ways New technologies are changing the world in mind-boggling ways The future is yours to imagine WHAT COMES NEXT 4
Who would have thought Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1876 In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the first electric lightbulb The Wright brothers successfully flew the first airplane in 1903 And don’t forget Henry Ford He invented a way to make cars quicker and cheaper These brilliant inventors did things that people once thought were impossible To go from candles to electricity From horse-drawn carriages to automobiles and airplanes Wow The sky’s the limit Now technology is being used to do even more amazing things Take robots for instance Robots are machines that are programmed to do two kinds of things Some robots do things that people can’t do like lift really heavy objects Other robots are designed to do things that humans don’t want to do like vacuum floors Who knows Someday there may be robots that can help you clean your room This book explores the people and professions behind robots Some of these careers like robot technician are so cutting-edge that they didn’t exist just a decade or so ago Others like programming offer exciting new twists using robots Read on to explore exciting possibilities for your future 5
