Spanish scientists have conducted research on the potential impact of robotics on society in the future. Their research shows that great automation and the ability to interact with people will have a big impact on creating a technological imbalance in the next 11 years between those to whom this technology is available and those to whom it is not.
One of the authors of this study drew a parallel between today's dependence on mobile telephony and vehicles and the hybridization of robots and humans in the future, trying to highlight the great impact they predict will have further development of these technologies in the next decade.
During the work on this study, the authors interviewed experts involved in making robots for various practical purposes, in order to try to assess in what time frame the models that are currently being developed can become a part of everyday life. Everyone agreed that the year can be marked as a turning point in 2020, because by then robots will be able to see, speak, work, understand language and have intelligence, which is why they will begin to occupy a significant place in human life. This will cause a revolution in robotics after which robots will cease to be sophisticated machines and become a tool to be used on a daily basis.
Although automation is still present today, its impact in the future will be greater in a wider range of applications. One of the fields in which robotics is expected to play a big role in the future is medicine. It can be used in the form of an exoskeleton that would help immobile people to move and thus make them less dependent on their environment. Even more significant is the use of robots inside the human body in the form of intelligent implants in the brain that would improve the process of rational thinking or nanorobots that would be inserted into the human bloodstream to clean clogged arteries.
Robots are expected to largely replace people in risky jobs such as security and defense. Robots will be intelligent arcs that will be present in both our households and industry. They will be able to be programmed to help at home, help on farms, to work 24 hours a day in factories. Replacing people in certain jobs will allow a person to be less exposed to a dangerous, stressful and unhealthy environment, thus reducing the risks for the person associated with the job he is doing.
One of the authors points out that perhaps the most interesting part of this revolution in the field of robotics is the emergence of social robots, machines with artificial intelligence, with which people will be able to have emotional and even intimate interactions. These robots will, among other things, be equipped with special sensors that will allow them to detect touch.
This study, among other things, deals with the possible consequences of increased robot integration into human society. It is believed that, as is currently the case with the unequal availability of the Internet, which creates a gap within society, so robotics will create a new kind of technological barrier between those to whom robots are available and those to whom they are not. This could result in an increasing cultural distance between people and companies who can afford new technology and those who cannot.
Also, in such an environment, industrial society is favored, which according to the authors of this study could lead to a deepening of the gap between developed countries and third world countries, or to the point that people will start giving more and more human characteristics to robots. , as is the case with the Japanese, many of whom today believe that their robots are alive, who would eventually have to define the rights of robots in this new and modernized society.
One of the big problems could arise precisely because robots in a large number of jobs will replace the workforce, which is why we could face a large increase in the number of unemployed. Experts in the field of robotics interviewed in this study claim that this imbalance will potentially be resolved by increasing the number of jobs that will exist within the production and maintenance of robots.
Robotics in science and medicine is really needed, but it is not applicable in all aspects of work. For example, he works in the making of ceramic dishes and may be able to do castings, but the size, shape, length of baking and painting still have to be done by one of the programmers to make short codes that the robot is guided by. Yet without the human factor robotics makes no sense.