Question

In which of the following areas are you least likely to find examples of automation?

Microprocessor manufacturing
Cleanup efforts in a toxic environment
Technical writing
Retail store checkout lines

Answer 1

Technical writing. In the other activities, there are robots involved. There are robots involved in microprocessor manufacturing, cleanup efforts in a toxic environment and there is automation in retail store checkout lines. There are some tools to help in technical writing but writers in this subject are highly demanded which means that there are not many substitutes yet.

Answer 2

Answer can be on below areas

1. Microprocessor Manufacturing - Manufacturing has to be automated mainly for two things.

- Reduce error contribution with human intervention as we cannot design a process where the person will not fail. No such process exits.
- Precision and Repeatability of the product is a requirement.

2. Cleanup Effort in a toxic environment - This has to be automated with machinery as it is very risky to have human intervention and exposure to the chemicals.