Some have suggested that the future of robotics is robots building other robots, with each new iteration of robots getting smaller and smaller, until we reach the scale of nanobots doing amazingly sophisticated tasks.
This is one of the most important concepts to understand about the future of robotics – when robots are connected in the cloud, they can share data about their experiences, and in doing so, dramatically accelerate how quickly they "learn" in the real world.
According to Kress-Gazit, the future of robotics is in the ability of robots to easily understand everyday users and to act reliably in different situations.
Joseph F. Engleberger, a Connecticut inventor who is credited with making the first industrial robot, will discuss "Back to the Future of Robotics" at 6 30 P.M. Wednesday in the Konover Campus Center of the University of Hartford.
In what feels like a mash-up of Steven Spielberg's A.I., Ash from Aliens, and Face Off, a freshly-premiered robot assistant could point to a future of robotics characterized by face-stealing, voice-mimicking personal assistants who can correctly guess your age and change colors on command.
The Robotics Primer covers such topics as the definition of robotics, the history of robotics ("Where do Robots Come From?"), robot components, locomotion, manipulation, sensors, control, control architectures, representation, behavior ("Making Your Robot Behave"), navigation, group robotics, learning, and the future of robotics (and its ethical implications).
Bring on the Robot Monkey Butler: The present and future of robotic research.
To review the history, development, current applications, and future of robotic technology.
Fellow RCA graduate Frank Kolkman has taken the DIY approach a few alarming steps further with a speculative project that imagines a future of robotic keyhole surgery in the home.
Thrun will discuss in more detail the future of robotic cars in an upcoming vlog, as well as in his keynote address at this year's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.
The National Science Foundation is spending nearly a million dollars to research a future of robotic nurses who will lift patients and bring them medicine while keeping living nurses "in the decision loop", even though nursing is one of the few growth industries that allows for upward mobility.
