Robotics

Mar 26, 2009

irobotI have been following robotics from a distance for some time now. Decennia ago we thought that we would have dish washing robots, a hang-the-laundry-droid and other tin slaves in a very short period of time. Now we know that this is not the case. But looking at the development of information processing capabillities of robots things have changed and are going faster than we think. In the early 90ties a robot could be controlled with 100 MIPS (millions of instructions per second) now my Macbook works with 10.000 of those.

This makes me wonder about the status in less than 50 years. We most probably will have computers and robots that outrun us in loads of areas and at the rate they are developing we might not be able to catch up with them. I can’t say that I like that perspective but anyway, judge for your self: Rise of the Robots–The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Hans Moravec

by Marcel Cramer | Categories: future, man, news | Tagged: , , , |

Share with others

One Response so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Erwin Van Lun
    March 27th, 2009 at %I:%M %p #

    Consumenten hebben geen onafhankelijke machines in huis. De afwasmachine, de auto: alles staat vast of wij besturen het.

    Zodra we echt robots zelfstandig hun gang willen laten gaan, moeten ze zo slim zijn dat ze probleemloos een eitje kunnen oppakken zonder het te vermorzelen (technisch gezien is dit nu gelukt in laboratoria), babies weten te ondershceiden van poppen en een glas dat wat ongelukkig is gevallen op weten te pakken zonder te forceren. Dat zijn de lastige dingen, waarvoor we overigens in hoog tempo oplossingen bedenken.

    De technische innovaties kunnen we over een jaar of tien in onze huiskamers verwachten (nadat we ze eerst overal hebben gezien op beurzen, pretparken en grote winkelcentra). Voor het zover is dat robots echt allerlei taken in huis hebben overgenomen, zijn we weer 15 jaar verder.

    Zie ook
    http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/trends/future_2035_roboworld/

Leave a Feedback

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

*
To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the word.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam word

SEO Powered by Platinum SEO from Techblissonline