The possibilities for future robotics

When indus­tri­al robots first debuted in the 1960s with the Uni­mate, researchers saw many pos­si­bil­i­ties for their future. Over the years, these robots have evolved into machines that can paint, weld, han­dle mate­r­i­al and remove mate­r­i­al, along with an entire host of oth­er appli­ca­tions. This new gen­er­a­tion of researchers look to the robot­ics from the old gen­er­a­tion to find ways for robots to help the world out­side of the factory.

Agri­cul­ture is one of the areas where robot­ics is real­ly start­ing to take off. The pos­si­bil­i­ties for robot­ic appli­ca­tions on a farm, while seem­ing out of place, are pret­ty end­less. Researchers are design­ing robots that are able to har­vest fruit and veg­eta­bles in a frac­tion of the time that human work­ers can do the same task. Why is this so impor­tant? The longer the fruits and veg­eta­bles take to har­vest, the more of an oppor­tu­ni­ty for them to spoil. When crops spoil in the field or on trucks because of the slow har­vest­ing process, farm­ers lose mon­ey. The pos­si­bil­i­ty of a robot­ic har­vester is good for farm­ers because it will mean they will get more mon­ey out of their crops for the year.

While agri­cul­ture robots are about as close to the Earth as you can get, some robot­ic pos­si­bil­i­ties are a lit­tle more out of this world – lit­er­al­ly. NASA and space orga­ni­za­tions in oth­er coun­tries are devel­op­ing robots that can take the place of astro­nauts in space. This pos­si­bil­i­ty may be clos­er than you think. Some robots, like the Mars Rover, have already been used to explore far away plan­ets and galax­ies. With robot­ic astro­nauts, explo­ration of oth­er far away worlds may become more of a real­i­ty in the future.

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