Japanese robotics

Friday, August 28, 2009

I was watching a Japanese show on their obsession with robotics. I mean, these guys are doing some serious stuff.

One was riding a tricycle mimicking human movement and another could actually walk just like humans do getting everything correct form the first step of walking which is known as the contact pose.

Another was a noodle making robot installed in a Japanese restaurant that did everything form actual cooking to serving the customers. While it was not working, it entertained diners with clever stunts such as spinning a plate on its arms.

I think in the near future, the robotics industry will blow when when it will be economically viable to mass produce robots for various uses like helping in the house, pets, drivers, pilots and many other uses.

This will only be true once the robotics foundation is properly laid, just like computing and the internet started out as slow, ineffective to what we witness today. The robots the Japanese create are very expensive today and are not a very viable for trade. The makers just construct them for display and research.

Hopefully, we hope the story that is told in the Matrix Trilogy movies will not prove to Happen.

Big up all you robotics creators. The age of transformers is not very far off.