This article is about the future of robotics for civil use. Cooperation between robots with different capabilities is one of aspects which can influence on the future of robotics. In this situation coordination is an important factor which must be take to account for making a robust behaviour for each robot.
TOPIO, a humanoid robot, played ping pong at Tokyo IREX 2009
Types of Robos
Humanoid robots:
- Lara is the first female human robot.
robot with artificial muscles (metal alloy strands that instantly contract when heated by an electric current) instead of electric motors (2006).
- Asimo is one of the most advanced projects as of 2009.
Modular robots: can be built from standard building blocks that can be combined in different ways.
- Utility fog
- M-Tran - a snake-like modular robot that uses genetic algorithms to evolve walking programs
- Self replicating robots modular robots that can produce copies of themselves using existing blocks.
- Swarmanoid is a project that uses 3 specialized classes of robots (footbots, handbots and eyebots) to create an effective swarm. Such a swarm should be able to, for example, clean a bedroom with each robot doing a specialized task.
- Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics
Educational toy robots:
Sports robots:
Projected robotics timeline
- 2015-2020 - every South Korean and many European households will have a robot, The Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea), 2007
- 2018 - robots will routinely carry out surgery, South Korea government 2007
- 2022 - intelligent robots that sense their environment, make decisions, and learn are used in 30% of households and organizations - TechCast
- 2030 - robots capable of performing at human level at most manual jobs Marshall Brain
- 2034 - robots (home automation systems) performing most household tasks, Helen Greiner, Chairman of iRobot
- 2050 - robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence
- 2015 - one third of US fighting strength will be composed of robots - US Department of Defense, 2006
- 2035 - first completely autonomous robot soldiers in operation - US Department of Defense, 2006
Developments related to robotics from the Japan NISTEP 2030 report :
- 2013-2014 — agricultural robots (AgRobots).
- 2013-2017 — robots that care for the elderly
- 2017 — medical robots performing low-invasive surgery
- 2017-2019 — household robots with full use.
- 2019-2021 — Nanorobots
Some of the pics of Future Robots
