What will my robot of the future look like? Were the hell is it?
Posted on November 30, 2009 by Marty
As a young lad growing up I’d often wonder to my self, what the future would be like, you know those kind of day dreams you had, when your sitting playing with your homemade Johnny 5 robot.
When I turned 9 years old, Short Circuit was released in the US, shortly after its release my family sat down to watch it on a fresh new pirate beta-max video; thanks go to our well connected sources working in the shipyards…
To my amazement.. I was watching this out of control robot; who was supposed to be “Alive”… Now I wasn’t stupid; I knew it was a film(as a boy i loved movies and was fascinated how they were made.. bugged the hell out my dad!!), but in the back of my mind I knew after watching the film over 100 times, I wanted one of those robots, or ‘A robot’ and thought to myself….
“I cannie wait for the future.”
“Well have all these mad robots flying us aboot, way big lasers on em..“
Very similar to what I though the future would look like.
So I made one, Which just happened to be made from a few old broken tanks, old meccano set and all the electrical toys you could find…, if they weren’t broke give me 5 mins and they’d be ripped to fuck… that was the main source for battery packs, lights and wires!
That was all well and good when I was 9…, but that was 23 years ago! now im sitting here at 32 wondering were the Hell is all the robots of the future? this is the future.. Isn’t it? looking at the modern technology now-a-days and how far we & technology has evolved over the last 2 decades bringing new innovations and inventions to the world everyday..
I’d like a revolutionary new robot,
packed to the rafters with amazing kick ass, out of the world features,
but its not going to happen…
Clark Boyd over at the BBC wrote an interesting article back in April – Robots of the future unveiled One thing that grabbed my attention was the tag line.
Experts predict that an aging world population and continuing global military conflicts will be the two main drivers of robot design and function in the coming years.
So basically, will we start seeing Iron man, GI-Joe looking prototype robot suits in the coming years, were a person can wear a robot like a piece of clothing?
Man I sure hope so!! but I also think to myself… Not in this Life time? But what if?
With the recently released video of Toyota’s humanoid robot which reminds more and more like the robot from I-Robot, which runs to fetch the woman’s inhaler.
This brings a new lease of life for the robot industry with cutting edge tech loaded to the gunnels with fancy bits and bobs, but!! were will it be in another 29 years? will I have the house trained bicentennial man? I doubt it! but im sure there’s plenty of smart people out there willing to try!
Id like my futuristic robot now please along with flying cars, intergalactic travel ports with multi-raced species
We all know that’s a good few years away yet….
how long do you think it will be? Do you think we’ll see it in this life time?