Week 2 Group C - Future Robotics Capabilities
Robotic capabilities have been developed fast
nowadays. Robots can do things that people cannot do. Robots are designed for
helping people and capable for complete dangerous tasks. It is very useful to
have robot to serve people.
One good example is Google’s humanoid robot project.
The humanoid robot is designed to negotiate rough terrain on moon. This robot
will help people to understand moon very fast. There is no need to train
people to get onto moon and also reduced the potential risks and costs. Google Company
is different than other companies in the same industry. This company is very
creative. The self-driving car from Google is really helpful for people who are
blind. Even if the car is not a robot, but it did what robot should do, service
people and help people.
The other example could be robot farmers. Robot
farmers are the future of agriculture. Those robots have more energy than
human, so they will bring efficient work and big benefits to farmers. And the
UK government thinks it could be a great deal. So they have set out for the first time an
"agri-tech" strategy, with £160m in public funding. Of this cash,
about £70m will go to commercializing new agricultural technologies – including
robots, and £90m will be spent on setting up centers for agricultural
innovation that will seek to develop farm technology for export, with the help
of a new unit within UK Trade and Investment.
Military is the place where may find robots more
useful. Military robots can be used in dangerous situation that can reduce soldiers
at risk. After viewed the video “Darpa Challenge”, we found put the four leg
robot called Cheetah and it could achieved a galloping speed of 18 mph; it’s
the fastest robot in the world. And now, Darpa challenged is seeking a robot
capable of using human tools like fight fires, climb ladders, search for bomb and
so on.
In the future, we believe Robots also can do construction work for
people, have sensors to operate to figure out the data that are changing
throughout the construction. As
Yoon mentioned on his post, today’s robots are not reliable to handle this kind
of project, but as the field grows rapidly, this will be happened eventually.
Yoon: future robot capabilities
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