Sergeant Reed had parked his car off by itself, leaving a devil-may-care gap in the row of vehicles that Sergeant Feyer -- who finds satisfaction in rote, mechanical tasks -- had meticulously arranged.
To excel at such reductive, mechanical tasks – hitting a ball, running in a circle – while maintaining the degree of fearless, blinkered, all‑consuming competitive display through which sport becomes a kind of art form … Well, we're going to need bold, finely engineered human beings.
It has been proposed that certain characteristics of the task and types of occupation (and in particular, mechanical tasks [ 17]) could make it more likely for a person to develop burnout, specifically with regard to the "under-challenged" profile [ 33- 35].
Mechanical tasks absorbed him, just as they would in the Army, to the point where they distracted from the rest of his life.
While we've grown accustomed to seeing such traditional robots expressionless and clearly controlled assisting in all sorts of rote mechanical tasks, more humanoid machines, like Honda's Asimo, have been around since at least 2001.
The first generation of computers in the 1980s were expensive and did only simple, mechanical tasks.
"I didn't think of him as someone to send out on mechanical tasks of digging out all the cases".
Furthermore, as he put it, "performance pay works great for mechanical tasks like soldering a circuit but works poorly for tasks that are deeply analytic or creative".
Not just those of us doing repetitious or "mechanical" tasks will be replaced.
