June 24th, 2009 |
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. [...]
June 11th, 2009 |
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 [...]
May 13th, 2009 |
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 [...]
April 1st, 2009 |
Two links about future possibilities and threats. Interpret brain signals and grow [...]
March 8th, 2009 |
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.
Is everything just [...]