AutomatonThis month's PC Magazine has a collection of short essays from some of the big names in tech about what the next 25 years will look like in their respective fields. iRobot CEO Colin Angle weighs in with the following:
In 25 years, robots with manipulation capabilities will be common. We won't have artificial intelligence that is indistinguishable from human-level intelligence, but we will have robot intelligence capable of doing many things humans do, including performing a large number of special-purpose tasks. More than 75 percent of homes will have at least one robot regularly performing routine chores. There will be a -hierarchy of robots in your home. You'll communicate with the lead robot using language, and it will tell the other special-purpose robots what to do, but you'll never deal with those other robots directly.
Link to his complete essay.
Editor: Erico Guizzo
Contributor: Mikell Taylor
Contributor: Markus Waibel
Contributor: John Palmisano
Comments (1)
Mr Angle has, hopefully, completely missed appreciating the nature of the next technological revolution.
Its first application will be the human-driverless auto -- an autonomous (very minimal central control) automated vehicle capable of seamless integration into existing manually operated traffic -- and capable of its eventual, overdue, displacement.
The devices capable of obtaining and interpreting for navigation 360-o planar vision (eventually spherical vision), both graphical and textual, are the objects of such a revolution and the facilitators of modern transport AND of the next Industrial Revolution, the Third, by my count.
I can fold my own laundry for awhile yet, thank you !
Let us try to get serious, down to the things that REALLY need attention, not just glitz !!
Posted by Allen N Wollscheidt, LM | January 17, 2008 2:34 PM