It began in 1920, when the Czech writer Karel Capek first proposed Robot. By 1961 Unimation was producing its first industrial robot, called Unimate. In the 1980s, the development of computer technology promoted the development of robot technology, so that the application of robot to a new level. Now into the 21st century, robot due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, computer science and sensor science, so that research at a high level. In the next few decades, I believe robots will flourish. Robots will be more autonomous, more flexible, more intelligent and faster.
I will analyze the future development trend of robots from the aspects of software, hardware and application scope.
software
The first is the software, which controls the robot's frame and brain. Now, most of the robot is not smart, they are just according to the program to perform the action, and action is designed instead of independent, such as robot walking gait planning, is in the process of walking, each robot joints, a coordination on the temporal and spatial relations, usually described by the trajectory of each joint. The description of the trajectory is programmed. Google recently designed a robot that can learn to walk without human intervention. In the future, robots will be more intelligent and solve the details of various problems by themselves.
hardware
Then there is the hardware, the body composition of the robot. At present there are more mature machine dog, machine car and so on. Robocup hopes to be able to beat humans in soccer by 2050, just as Deep Blue and AlphaGo did. But for now, humanoid robots are too rigid and have a high failure rate when performing a range of actions. But top companies like Boston have been able to train robots to perform difficult backflips. There are also bionic robots like spiders, fish, snakes and birds. In the future, more types of robots will be created, and the body size, hardness, flexibility and perception of robots will develop better.
Range of application
The future application scope of robot is the focus of the development of industrial robot technology in the future. First, for dangerous, harsh environment work robots: such as anti-terrorism, anti-riot, fire fighting, high-voltage, high-altitude robot industry. Second, for repetitive labor robots, such as sweeping robots, washing dishes and cooking robots and other technologies will be more mature, but also more popular.
In the future, it must be the era of robots. Robots will also become easier to communicate, more independent, more efficient and more intelligent. They will free man's busy hands just as computers freed man's computing. Giving people more time to invent and create a smarter world.
