While there are many predictions about our lives
in next 50 years: living on mars, fighting in WWIII, transporting through black
hole, not having hard-land to live on, or even communicating with alien, the only one certain thing about our future is that robots will play a big role in human history.
In “Tiny robots carry up to 2,000 times
their own weight” (2015), Stanford University’s PhD students invented exceptional
tiny robots, MicroTug, which can pull object that weigh more than a thousand
times of their weight. And right now, these two students are still developing
these breath-taking inventions to improve their performance and to create major
impact on robotics industry.
When I read this news what came to my mind was
the robotics class I had taken last semester. My teacher said that in the
future everyone will have personal robot. Personal robot means robot that will
assist almost everything in one’s life. This idea has been shown in many movies
over several decades. In the past, many people thought it's just a day dream. But
today they will probably change their minds. Technologies have been developed. Robot become more intelligent. So, it is possible that you will see people walking with their personal robot in several years.
A number of inventions, which no one thought they would really exist
in our world, are common things in our lives nowadays, such as Google glass,
Apple watch, drone, ultrasonic plane, satellite, etc. Moreover, some are playing important roles. For example, aeroplane, which we're familiar with, used to be a thing that believed to be impossible. In last 20 years, aeroplane created a big contribution to the world. It has changed world economic, culture in many countries, life styles of many people, and many other things which shape our world to be as today. So, I am sure that in
next 50 years many things that are commonly believed to be impossible right now will become parts of our life.
Scientists today are looking for device
with not only extremely high performance, but also the size that is small
enough to be carried. Benefit from small-size robots is that it is more likely
to be part of normal people life. I believe that no one wants to carry 50-kg
robot with more than 2 meter of height to the shopping mall. As for today, the
definition of “small” is different from the past. When we talk about small
thing, we’re talking about Nano scale. Of course, we are developing Nano robot,
which will completely revolutionize many industries. The direct benefit for us
is that it can go into our body. It means doctor will be able to examine and
cure patient from inside. As you can see, robotics help improve our lives in many aspects.
Lastly, as long as we’re looking for
better lives, robotics is an undeniable answer.
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Reference
Tiny robots carry up to 2,000 times their own weight. (2015, April
28). BBC News Technology. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32495269
I think i could use these as a reference for some of my concept ideas.It's a nice story BTW, and I admire you for your passion about technology.
ReplyDeleteI used to see many movie that occurs in next 50 years or 100 years with many modern technology. I think people expect for everything that make their lives easier and this expectation stimulate someone to invent something with high ambition.
ReplyDeleteTalking about movie about technology, this evening, I just watched Avenger 2. I was really impressed, not because its action scenes, but it talks about robot in different way. It presents bad side of super intelligent robot, which we're trying to make nowadays. Once they are smarter than us, we might have problems.
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ReplyDeleteI do agree that personal robot is very useful and it's going to be in every household in the near future.
ReplyDeleteHowever, currently there is a heated discussion about the plausible danger of intelligent robots. Simply speaking, people are worried that robots're going to overrule humans if they are too smart. Personally, I don't think so. By the way, what do you think?
Your article is very interesting.It remind me the famous cartoon movie "Doreamon" and I think it's cool idea because it's very useful for human.
ReplyDeleteEven though, I agree with Tin that smart robot might harm the people because it's more intelligent and stronger than the human. However, I'm excited to see the technological evolution :)
Your article is very interesting.It remind me the famous cartoon movie "Doreamon" and I think it's cool idea because it's very useful for human.
ReplyDeleteEven though, I agree with Tin that smart robot might harm the people because it's more intelligent and stronger than the human. However, I'm excited to see the technological evolution :)
Your article is very interesting.It remind me the famous cartoon movie "Doreamon" and I think it's cool idea because it's very useful for human.
ReplyDeleteEven though, I agree with Tin that smart robot might harm the people because it's more intelligent and stronger than the human. However, I'm excited to see the technological evolution :)
When I saw "personal robot" as you talking about, I immediately imagine that it might be the same in "Wall-E",a animation movie of Disney.
ReplyDeleteIn this movie, human require doing nothing, they just stay on the automatic chair, the robot will serve everything whatever they want. Therefore, it does not surprising, everyone is overweight.
This story may be show us the probably human lifestyle in the future with robotics era.