Ok, I'm calling it. These, once refined, will be used as drones in high risk operations. They will be controlled at a distance and used in underwater construction, rescue operations and the like. Of course they can be programmed but controlled would make their implementation much easier. Near future, 10 years.
Naaa it will be way more then 10 years. The hard part about these type of robots is getting an artificial muscle to have the same range of motion as a real human muscle. This is because human muscle contracts at the chemical level which is several orders of magnitude smaller then what mechanical analogs can do. Until that hurdle is jumped this type of robot is mostly just a demonstrator. That kind of nano(?) scale machinery just isn’t going to happen in the next 10 years.
The robot just needs to walk, crouch, grab stuff, push buttons and maybe climb a bit to be quite effective, it doesn't need the dexterity of Jackie Chan, mechanical analogs are enough for that id say
Those have a much better chance. But I think it will still be quite a while before we get to the point of having autonomous bipedal robots just walking around and being used to do hazardous jobs due to hoe expensive those are right now and the complexity of the operations involved.
Bro is confidently incorrect lol. Surgeons have been using robotics for years to perform surgeries that utilize intricate, granular movements that are far more precise than a human hand is capable of.
The problem is they’re too expensive to build en masse to be practical for mass production at the scale needed to replace a human workforce.
I’m not saying that robotics that can do that type of precision don’t exist, I’m saying that we will not have a muscle analog like that shown in the video that can both compress enough and have the necessary strength to pull off a west world style robot in the next ten years. And theirs is a massive difference between the medical machines which you’re talking about and replicating the way human muscles contract at the same scale. Google how human muscles contract if you don’t believe me.
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u/Elven_Groceries Oct 23 '24
Ok, I'm calling it. These, once refined, will be used as drones in high risk operations. They will be controlled at a distance and used in underwater construction, rescue operations and the like. Of course they can be programmed but controlled would make their implementation much easier. Near future, 10 years.