A few years ago I hosted a meeting at HP about robots. ...the long and the short of it is it became known as the "robot meeting" at HP with a few people. In fact, you could say I'll likely never live this down. Well folks, in 40 years or less you'll see, I'm way ahead of my time on this. Eventually we will see humanoid robots which are capable of more than just dusting the floor.
There is a pretty cool article written in 2008 and printed in Scientific American. It was about robots and how technology was advancing so fast that sometime in the future robots could actually look like humans - and in fact we have seen demonstrations of this in Japan.
They estimate that "by 2050 robot brains based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence."
South Korea may actually replace English teachers with Robot English teachers. Talk about shifting jobs.. what happens to employment in the future? We should probably start thinking about this now.
"By 2010 we will see mobile robots as big as people but with cognitive abilities similar in many respects to those of a lizard. The machines will be capable of carrying out simple chores, such as vacuuming, dusting, delivering packages, and taking out the garbage. By 2040, I believe, we will finally achieve the original goal of robotics and a thematic mainstay of science fiction: a freely moving machine with the intellectual capabilities of a human being."
Just think about the potential of job shifting. What jobs come back to America, what jobs get shipped overseas? This is some crazy stuff. I'm going to visit a lab of a major vendor partner in Seattle soon where they are spending some good resources on the development of robots. If I can blog about it I will.
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