Bill Gates in his paper for The Scientific American wrote recently: “The emergence of the robotics industry is developing in much the same way that the computer business did 30 years ago. Think of the manufacturing robots currently used on automobile assembly lines as the equivalent of yesterday’s mainframes.”
In the paper, Gates envisions “...a future in which robotic devices will become a nearly ubiquitous part of our day-to-day lives. I believe that technologies such as distributed computing, voice and visual recognition, and wireless broadband connectivity will open the door to a new generation of autonomous devices that enable computers to perform tasks in the physical world on our behalf. We may be on the verge of a new era, when the PC will get up off the desktop and allow us to see, hear, touch and manipulate objects in places where we are not physically present.”
Today, robotic arms can perform surgery and robots deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan dispose of roadside bombs. Some of the world’s best minds are trying to solve the toughest problems of robotics, such as visual recognition, navigation and machine learning. So who knows what the next ten years could bring forth in robotics!
Oringial news source for the post: March of the Cyber Sapiens article, Business Standard
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