What is the significant recent progress in robotics?

Robotics is a hot field that constantly produces messages. Notable recent Advances Include and Robotic ARM So Finely Calibrated That It Can Pick Up and Light Bulb Without Breaking it (Shadow Hand®), Robotic Cars That Drive Themmelves Through Urban Environments Complete with Traffic Brain-Computer Interfaces (Braingate®), and Humanoid Robots That Can Climb Stairs and Be Guided by A Person Holding Their Hand (Asimo®).

Billions of dollars are spent every year in robotics research. Unfortunately, Robotics did not progress as quickly as many expected at the age of 80, and domestic robotics are relatively limited, consisting of vacuum robots such as Roomba® and his cousin of the pool, SCOOBA®. Entertainment robots such as Robosapien® and Pleo® are popular, with many others on the way.

The most advanced robots are used by the US Army. Packbot®, made by the same company that makes Roomba & Reg;, IRobot Corp., serves as rObotic package. Minesweeper robots are regularly used in the Iraqi war to clean the road improvised explosive devices. The Robot Robot Recon/Combat was also used in Iraq, and its costs are falling to the cost of training a soldier, suggesting that in the irreversible future, robots can replace human soldiers with tasks that require human intelligence or interaction. A series of UAV predators (unmanned air vehicles) is a combat unit with self -healing, which is operated by simple remote controls.

In production, robotic weapons are used to automate tasks if they are economically possible. The fastest works many times faster than human hands and are often paid in just months. The University of Tokyo created a robotic arm so quickly that it can catch a baseball thrown at 186 km / h. Robotics are commonly used in Massivuparalní Biological Research whereHundreds or thousands of micropipetes must be operated simultaneously.

It looks like a matter of time, until the long -awaited integration of robots into society in general, but for now, their most widespread application in industry and army is.