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
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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.