Robotics.

Thank Asimov, one talks about it.

Well, what is a robot?

"A machine that looks like a human being and has the capacity to perform human tasks." 
(Webster's Dictionary) 

"An intelligent connection of perception to action." 
(Mobile Robots Book) 

"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with." 
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

A damn short introduction since there isn’t enough space to write a long one.
Ever since the cocktail of primeval mud spat out human spirit out of evolutionary euphoria, this spirit was eager to create tools of ever-growing extravagancy in order to hand over all the dangerous, annoying, and boring work. Currently, robotics is at present the result of this development. The central Question is: How to transfer the efficiency of human actions on to a couple of chips in a metal case? Result: our world is inhabited by vast amounts of semi-pseudo intelligent gizmos, whose overall presence is unnoticed but which spare us plenty of everyday struggles. Automatic tellers, production halls, subways (where the obligatory control humanoid sits around in Austria) - Three Mile Island or Chernobyl were also cleared up by some adorable mobile units, and in the ice water of the North Pole Odyssey IIb collects data. While it is already possible to have a kind of thing creeping across the surface of Mars, robots are tested which should be able to harvest clover in an area of 100 m2. And the lawn is always neatly trimmed if the solar driven lawn mower circles automatically. The market for these smaller automatons could be four times as big as the market for industrial robots. And even that is already as big as 650.000 pieces acting according to their programming on a daily basis.

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