Probots for Tomorrow
Besides the decrease in price and increase in number, robots will also grow in sophistication. As memory chips become smaller and microprocessors become more advanced, the abilities of the probot will grow in number and usefulness, with more features appearing over the next few years, such as.
Voice Recognition: The abillity to detect words or phrases on which the probot may act. For instance, if you told your probot equipped with voice recognition "Get the newspaper" "Serve the drinks" or practically any other phrase, the probot could recognize it and follow your command.
Advanced Robotic Arms: More advanced arms will become standard on most personal robots within the next decade. These arms, capable of more intricate movements and perhaps capable of "feeling" an object (with artificial skin) could make probots far more useful, since arms are probably their most vital working part.
Shape Recognition: When probots can recognize shape, they will be able to pick out a single object from a group or identify any object. For example, if a bowl were filled with many different kinds of fruit, you could tell the probot, "Get me an orange", and using its shape-recognizing "eyes" it could travel to the fruit bowl and pick out an orange from the rest of the fruit. Of course, there are more applications for shape recognition, such as assembling pieces of an object or picking out a particular person among many by identifying the height, size, and build of an individual.
These and many other new features will be introduced in robots and probots as they continue to evolve. We have seen the many uses for the robots of today, so the number of use for those of tomorrow seems almost too incredible to believe.
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Space Exploration
Robots will not only help us on this world, but will also help us explore other worlds. In fact, spaceexploration is one of the most promising uses for robots, since these machines are not so susceptible to the elements that could hurt or kill people.
Robots can withstand radiation, heat, cold, and can function without an atmosphere. Also, robots have a much longer life span, so voyages to other solar systems, as well as other planets, would be possible. Robots could communicate with us, and if something went wrong and destroyed the space vehicle, a machine would be lost, not a human being.
Sea Exploration
Mining the sea for minerals, lost treasures, and food are all within the capabilities of robots. As our robotic technology grows more advanced, we can explore the bottom of any sea, examining the mysterious creatures living in the freezing darkness, miles below the surface of the water. In general, robots could allow us to explore places where no person can survive. These machines of today and tomorrow can take us where we have never been before, and use untapped resources, previously unattainable by us because of our own physical limitations.
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