An Autonomous Era of Smart software inside helpful robots is almost here

🤖 "Why Robots will Eat the World"

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As I cover emerging tech, as interesting as LLMs trained on proprietary data or chatbots trained on everyone’s data without permission is for the future of artificial intelligence, how the hardware comes to life - from autonomous vehicles, robots, drones and ambient computing with the internet of things to whatever else is in store for us, is equally fascinating to me.

A.I. powered robots will drive us around, do some of our most dangerous jobs better than we could and they are already changing the trajectory of warfare, among many other things.

Indeed, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or commonly known as “drones”, are remotely controlled devices used in many industries, like Defence, Military Warfare and in many others that as we have seen in the Ukraine invasion, are part of the A.I. arms race. Drones are a big part of the future of warfare and surveillance among more utopian use cases like fighting forest fires and responding to natural disasters.

Sam Altman may have finally watched the 2014 film"Ex Machina", but robots will become more important in the next two decades than many of us realize.

Make it in our Image

But what about the humanoid robot? What about a general purpose robot? The Race for a Humanoid General Purpose Robot is Next.

The Race for a Humanoid General Purpose Robot is Next

I have a hunch and predict humanity tends to overestimate how transformative smart software will be, and underestimate how disruptive smart robots are going to be.

Every year, robots are doing diverse tasks, tasks we once considered outside of their capabilities, such as medical surgery to cooking, to learning how to drive unmanned cars autonomously & they are getting better at it.

Every single year robots will improve and find more real world uses cases in society and civilization. Think about that, a constant movement of improvement.

Take medicine for example, with aging population what will we need to reduce the cost of healthcare really?

1. Surgical Robots

2. Service Robots

3. Exoskeleton Robots

4. Transportation Robots

5. Rehabilitation Robots

6. Social Robots

7. Cleaning robots

8. Robots that are like Personal Assistants

9. Ambient smart hospitals with A.I., IoT and robotics built in.

Why a General Purpose Robot is so Important?

So what’s the GPT-4 or “ChatGPT” equivalent for robotics? I’d argue it’s going to be general purpose robots. Tesla’s attempt to build a General purpose robot (GPR) is not some isolated thing.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots might be Important for AGI

There are dozens of startups specializing on GPRs and more intelligent robots in a humanoid form. These robots will get more multi-functional, cheaper and smarter at an astounding pace in the mid 21st century. How do you suppose that will change the world?

A.I. and Robots are Coming

Is Rosie the Robot Maid from the Jetsons here yet?

I wanted to just brief highlight some of the players in GPRs, to give you a sense of what’s going on from the startup and product level.