Be it in assembly lines, the military or in surgery rooms in a hospital, today’s robots can perform highly complex tasks. The research of the day is to find robots that can work in team with us humans, also known as teamworkbots. They are supposed to observe human activity and try to understand the intentions. [...]
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In this video the surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr have a very fascinating speech about surgery in the past and in the future. She starts from the time when there was no pain killer, ouch! The main part is about surgery robots performing micro-surgery in places where humans just can’t. This quote (not verbatim), made [...] Some technologies look so cool and nifty but they don’t change much of our life and behaviour. Other technologies might not look so interesting or sometimes even boring but will have a crucial role in our future lives. For instance 3D TV that I wrote about before will not have any special impact on our lives as [...] We know that one day robots (or computers actually) will be smarter than us – The point of singularity. In my previous post, “5 Technology disasters”, I talked about disasters as a result from excessive faith in technology. With these examples in mind, what can go wrong with robotics in the future? Well, everything of course. Can it be that they take over control and rule us humans? Probably not but there is a [...] We have something about robots in the western world. Robots are dangerous. We can accept that they will do the boring and maybe difficult jobs that humans can’t do or avoid to do. Robots are a threat and they will eventually take over. The Terminator! This is not at all the case in the developed Asian countries.The perception of the robots is much more playful and there is even a strong belief in the future of robots. This playful interest in robots is likely to give Asia’s robot development an even greater [...] Two links about future possibilities and threats. Interpret brain signals and grow [...] Humanoids and other moving robots are beginning to be useful in our daily life. They are slowly starting to leave the laboratories to help us clean, remember things, heavy lifts or just for entertaining. |
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