Man and Machine

Man and  Machine

Introduction

In our daily life, we use various kinds of machine. We have a variety of machines for different

Applications. Important sectors where machines are used are given as below:

Sr. No	Sectors	Brief Description
1	Machine Tools	Constitutes machines related to metal cutting and forming
2	Power & Electrical equipment	Constitutes machines related to power generation, transmission and distribution
3	Process Plant Machinery	Constitutes machines such as pressure vessels, evaporators, stirrers, heat exchangers etc. are used in energy, metallurgy, oil and gas, industry etc.
4	Textile Machinery	Constitutes machines used  in various steps of textile fabrication such as spinning weaving, processing, testing etc.
5	Plastic, Paper & Rubber Machinery	Constitutes machinery used in various fabrication steps of paper, plastic and rubber manufacturing
6	Light Engineering Goods	Constitutes machines related to roller bearing, process control, instruments, castings, steel forgings, and pipes etc used in oil & gas, power, automotive etc. industries
7	Earthmoving, Construction and Mining Equipment	Constitutes machines such as graders, dozers, excavators etc for mining and mixers, tippers, road millers etc. For constructions.
8	Material Handling and Lifting Equipment	Constitutes primarily of forklifts and cranes.
9	Agricultural Machinery	Constitutes machines used in various steps of agriculture such as land development, sowing weeding, harvesting etc.

Machines are the creation of humans, and they were created to make their work easier. Humans depend more and more on machines for their day-to-day things. Machines have created a revolution, and no human can think of a life without machines.

A machine is only a device consisting of different parts, and is used for performing different functions. They do not have life, as they are mechanical. On the other hand, humans are made of flesh and blood; life is just not mechanical for humans.

Comparison between Human and Machine (Similarity & difference between MAN and MACHINE)

S.No	Characterstics	Man	Machine
1	Feelings and Emotions	Human  can express these emotions; happiness and sorrow are part of one’s life	Have no feelings and emotion
2	Capability	Have the capability to understand situations, and behave accordingly	Do not have this capability
3	Intelligence	Perform activities as per their own intelligence	Have an artificial intelligence
4	Consciousness	Humans behave as per their consciousness	Perform as they are taught.
5	Sophisticated	Perform orginal	Cannot perform anything original. Machines do not have original thoughts
6	Energy	Man biochemically through food	( Machine )Robot through an electrical power source like a battery, solar power, an electrical wall outlet, or chemical reaction.)
7	Sensors	Man has senses of touch, hearing, taste, sight and smell	(Machine) Robots can sense pressure (touch), acoustic levels and patterns (hearing), chemical composition analysis (taste), electro-optical detection and pattern recognition (sight) and gas chromography (smell).

Man and Robots must both learn in order to be productive. Man is taught either by others or by self trial and error. Robots are taught by their initial programming or through artificial intelligence algorithms that pick up on repeated patterns and preferred responses. 

Man differs from Robots in that he tires after long labor, that he has the effects of emotion and moods, and that his productivity is not predictable and relatively slow. He eventually dies. Robots can work non-stop with predictable productivity and are not bored by grossly repetitive tasking. With proper maintenance, Robots could potentially work for a thousand years. 

While Robots may be created that look like anything from a spider to something which looks remarkably like a Man, Man only has one basic bipedal design. 

Man is self-aware and is spontaneously creative. He has the ability to believe in higher beings and esoteric concepts. He is truly creative and can feel love, anger, despair and ecstasy. Robots at this point in time are not self aware, feel no emotions, and cannot create except through random action. 

Man is multi functional. He can reproduce, learn, adapt, create, destroy, love, laugh, paint a masterpiece, make multiple different judgments based upon exactly the same set of facts, sing, dance, invent, work on a space station, an oil rig, play a violin, perform slight of hand magic tricks and calculate a businesses cash flow... all using the same biological design. This degree of functionality in a robot is not even on the horizon for robotics. There is not a single Robot or machine in the world capable of this degree of diversity.

AUTHOR:

AMIT KAUSHIK

(Geeta Engineering College Panipat)