Perhaps one of the best, and most useful, applications of the advancement of robotic technology focuses on the use of robots in the overall aid of humanity. Robots and mechanized systems have been helping humans to accomplish tasks for quite a while now. Just look at car assembly lines, for example. Those operate with relatively minimal human interaction outside of some programming. Robotics and technology related to robotics helps people with artificial limbs to be able to live a more normal life.
"There have also been rapid advancements in brain-machine interfaces, such as retinal implants, communication devices for paralyzed or locked-in patients, and even memory prosthesis, hinting at the possibility of neural implants that enhance normal functioning" (Lawton, 2006). Lawton refers to the growing and ever increasing capabilities that robotic and machine technologies could present humans as we advance our own technological capabilities in the development of these different machines. Robotics provides a means for significantly altering the human existance in a variety of different and far reaching ways. Humans can be stronger, they can live longer, they can overcome injuries (or at least, deal with them in different ways), and they can carry out tasks that once seemed near impossible in a more efficient way, all through the use of technology and robotics.