Why it’s time to assimilate robots in the equation

Did you watch the movie “I robots “and almost or completely got jaded so that you couldn’t get to the culmination of it at all? As far as I can recall my five year old nephew as watched the same for not less than five times and he seems not to get enough of the same so that every time you mention a movie the thing that strikes his mind is the robot, maybe a sign of the diversity in generations they always talk of. If what Mr. Will Smith presented was too weird and unfeasible in your view then you likely not prepared for the events that are most probably going to unfold before the dusk of the twenty first century. The picture painted in that movie is most likely than not going to come to actuality in a span of not more than two decades time, yah decade, not a century!

I lately bumped on an editorial “The Umbilical Link of Man to Robot” written by John Markoff 0n 21^st October 2013 in ‘COORDINATES’ and as I marveled at the power of technology, I gradually started the longest errand of appreciating the underlying untapped efforts of robotics that is likely to be the next revolutionary turning point. The writer of the article starts by a fine description of a six-foot-humanoid robot that was created by Boston Dynamics which now stands in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the short comprehensive description of this humanlike machine which the team of students, engineers and software hackers who are working on it called Atlas puts to limelight a good deal of mystery related to robots.

However, the gliding toy as Chris Atkeson a Professor in Human-Computer Interaction Institute would call them also pose an immense challenge, this is because their operations which are controlled by computer algorithms are not always predictable. He explains how at times while testing the prototype they have to hold it by the cord while one stands next to the big red emergency power button just in case the unanticipated transpires. A member of a team working on another robot called “Hubo robot” which is autonomously controlled by computer program and certainly a notch higher than the latter also says he cannot stand anywhere near Hubo while they are analyzing it, albeit both teams are immensely optimistic that all these shortcomings will soon be watered down and at last have a more sociable machine. A collaboration between software engineers and roboticist have always had a good track record and their optimism is not a thing to ever question.

This now signals a need for taming all that false fallacy that comes with itinerant microchip technology and automobiles for soon or later they could be our very next acquaintances in most of our operations. For some,  this could be top in the list of most transcendent myths the may choose never to believe just like a lecture about hydraulics, mobile phones or even the 33.69 petaflops super computer in China could have sounded to anybody living during the Shakespearean era. But now that automation is here with us, let make our most maiden steps into honorably embracing it.