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So you never know where curiosity-based research will lead, and someday you may want a swarm of cockroach-inspired
robots
to come at you.
And moving into the next phase, we're planning to also add ceiling-mounted CNC bots, which allow makers to cocreate together with
robots.
But AI completely replaces the individual jobs in the assembly line with
robots.
Why aren't we just
robots
who process all this input, produce all that output, without experiencing the inner movie at all?
And by then, other science fiction nightmares may transition to reality: dumb
robots
going rogue, or a network that develops a mind of its own threatens us all.
And these are robot emotion chips, so
robots
can feel love or fear.
So right now, the most capital-intensive sectors in the economy are the real estate sector, housing, the energy sector, but it could be in the future that we have a lot more
robots
in a number of sectors and that this would be a bigger share of the total capital stock that it is today.
Now, the next thing we looked into was robots, automation, technology.
Not only in the production industry, but even office workers are in jeopardy and might be replaced by robots, artificial intelligence, big data, or automation.
Let's take the automotive industry as an example, because there, more than 40 percent of industrial
robots
are already working and automation has already taken place.
As a matter of fact, the overall number of people involved in the production of a car has only changed slightly in the last decades, in spite of
robots
and automation.
My students and I work on very tiny
robots.
It shows a cockroach moving over incredibly rough terrain without tipping over, and it's able to do this because its legs are a combination of rigid materials, which is what we traditionally use to make robots, and soft materials.
Ultimately, though, we want to add motors to this too, and we have students in the lab working on millimeter-sized motors to eventually integrate onto small, autonomous
robots.
So I think you can imagine all the cool things that we could do with
robots
that can run and crawl and jump and roll at this size scale.
Imagine these small
robots
running through that rubble to look for survivors.
Or imagine a lot of small
robots
running around a bridge in order to inspect it and make sure it's safe so you don't get collapses like this, which happened outside of Minneapolis in 2007.
Or just imagine what you could do if you had
robots
that could swim through your blood.
Or we could radically change the way we build things if we have our tiny
robots
work the same way that termites do, and they build these incredible eight-meter-high mounds, effectively well ventilated apartment buildings for other termites in Africa and Australia.
So I think I've given you some of the possibilities of what we can do with these small
robots.
It means that
robots
are going to build our buildings, because we're finally ready for the forms that they're going to produce.
On the other hand, when we do tours of our lab at the BioFrontiers Institute, and we explain that we use
robots
and lasers to look at poop, it turns out that not everyone wants to know.
They're not robots, and there's nothing special about them.
But you know, all the
robots
I've shown you have been small, and that's because
robots
don't do things that people do.
It was so hot, on one of the robots, the tracks began to melt and come off.
The biggest problem is not making the
robots
smaller, though.
So wouldn't it be great if we could have experts immediately access the
robots
without having to waste any time of driving to the site, so whoever's there, use their
robots
over the Internet.
So we're using these kinds of interfaces to allow people to use the
robots
without knowing what robot they're using, or even if they're using a robot or not.
What the
robots
give you, what they give the experts, is data.
Now, we're looking, if we can get the data from the
robots
to share, not only can we do things like compress that sequence of phases to shorten the response time, but now we can begin to do the response in parallel.
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