Slowly but surely we are headed towards a world where, if you were to go now, you would get the greatest cultural shock of your life, even if you went to your own country. 

That is because our lives are going to be so much different than what they are now. In fact, this has been happening for quite some time now. Remember just over a decade ago when smartphones weren’t there? Today we rely on them for everything. 

Similarly some decades ago, the internet didn’t exist and our current lives might just have been dreams for people back then, or more realistically, beyond their wildest imaginations. 

The same will happen again in the coming decades when the technologies that are in their infancy today, will become fully developed and go mainstream and become so integrated with our lives that we will wonder how we ever managed without them. 

The Age of Robots

The technology that I am going to be talking about today is Robotics. We have had robots for quite some time now but they have been mostly limited to factories and look no way near as cool as the robots we are used to seeing in the movies. 

In the future however, the humanoid robots will be as common as smartphones are today. We will see them everywhere, will work with them and they could be seen walking and talking among ourselves as if just another humans.

The “walking and talking like humans” part will come much further along the way, probably after we become comfortable with the robots who look and talk like robots. 

Anyways, they will be everywhere, assisting us in our daily life, at work, in the air, under the oceans, even in our labs! 



The Role of Future Robots

As I said, we will see robots being used in every field imaginable. There are a lot of things that only a robot will be able to do and some other things that robots will be able to do better than us, so their presence will help us humans in various ways. 

Also, there will be use-specific robots that will performing only one task or a limited range of tasks.

In Our Homes

House chores will be a thing of the past as in the future, robots will take care of every one of those. From cleaning the house and taking out trash to doing the laundry and the dishes, everything will be handled by our metallic friends. 

Don’t want to cook? Don’t want to go outside? Just tell your robot chef to cook something for you and it shall be done!

They will even be able to take care of the little children. Even today there are several small robots that are aimed towards children to teach them various things like languages and to help them improve their cognitive development. 

In Our Offices

I think workplace will be a huge area where the expertise of robots will be employed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a business by a multitude. 

Robots with AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities will be able to churn a large amount of data making connections that no humans could ever make so as to benefit businesses make smart decisions. 

They could also predict the probability of success or failure of a decision which will be another plus for businesses. 

In The Military 

This one is pretty scary but I think there is just no way the militaries of the world won’t want to ‘employ’ robots for the purposes of defence as well as offence. 

Since robots won’t die as quickly as humans do and will come with god knows what capabilities, robots will bring an entirely new dimension to the militaries of the world and to warfare (if and when any happens).

An entirely new arms race will begin to build robots, exoskeletons, even Iron Man like suits to one-up the different nations of the world and establish superiority. 

In Space

There are already robots like the Mars rover Curiosity but in the future, much of the exploration will be done by robots who will search for suitable planets for us to colonise and once confirmed will start building structures there, ready for our arrival. 

This will be really useful because our biology places a lot of limitations on our capabilities and durability in space so we will have to delegate much of the space explorations to robots and only handle the really important missions. 

Robots could also be used for resource mining in space by sending swarms of them on asteroids or distant planets. This would create an entirely new industry. 

In Labs

Like in the offices, robots equipped with AI will be of immense importance here. AI is already starting to find cures for diseases and is conducting researches of its own without anyone telling it to do so. 

Thanks to the highly advanced computing prowess of the future, their capabilities to advance scientific knowledge, be it in any field, will be very high. Maybe, they will make discoveries and inventions  for us. 

For that AI, will need a physical form which robots can easily provide. This one sounds a bit scary too. We will need to maintain supervision over everything that an AI robot will do in a lab, otherwise who knows what it might cook up. 

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