Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

Robots are already a part of our lives. Industrial robots widely used in manufacturing. Military and police organizations use robots to (6) _____ in dangerous situations. Robots can (7) _____ be found from vacuuming the floors in your home to exploring the surface of Mars.

Within a few more years a whole host of robotic adaptations will be running many aspects' of our lives. "I think in (8) _____ next thirty years, we are going to see a transformation between the industrial sorts of robots to personal robots," says Brooks from Brooks' company, IRobot, markets floor cleaning robots for homes.

"The advances in robotics make it clear that many household (9) ____ will be easily handled by a robot in the near future," says Bob Christopher, who works for a robotic technology company that is marketing a toy robot (10) _____ Pleo. "We have only one child but I could easily (11) _____ five or six robots in the home as well."

Within the next 10 years one will be able to (12) _____, to lease or purchase a domestic robot that not only does the household cleaning and prepare and serve his meals, (13) _____ also can carry him to the bathtub if he cannot walk.

Demographic changes, such as a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, will drive forward the application of new (14) ___. There is going to be a real pull for increasing the productivity of working age people. So there is going to be a real push for robotics to help people. (15) _____ addition it is likely that in the near future we will see robots- taking on some of the care functions elderly, or long-term ill people.

(6) .....................

• A. 
  assist
• B. 
  increase
• C. 
  make
• D. 
  create