Future

**The Future of Robots**
'By 2050 robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence' -Hans Moravec, March 23, 2009

It is debatable as to whether or not the future of robots is going to be a great revolution or an underwhelimg let down, depending on awhich science magazine editor you choose to believe. Robots in the near future will most likely be similar to what we are used to; machines that are able to complete simple tasks and generally make our lives easier. In the distant future there is no limit to the predictions people have made about what robots will become. In movies from "Terminator" to "I, Robot" the depiction of artficial intelligence has been shown to help and hurt us, but there is no certainty as to whether either will actually happen. The technology and probability exists to create robots as intelligent as a human:

//"The design of the human brain-and body-is stored in the genome, and the genome doesn´t contain that much information. There are three billion rungs of DNA in the human genome: six billion bits, or 800 million bytes. It is replete with redundancies, however; one lengthy sequence called ALU is repeated 300,000 times. Since we know the genome´s structure, we can compress its information to only 30 million to 100 million bytes, which is smaller than the code for Microsoft Word. About half of this contains the design of the human brain." - Popular Science Magazine//

This goes to show how easy it is to create a robot that can replicate a human, something that has been dreamed of for many years now. It is only a matter of time before this technology emerges, but realistically it will not be readily accessable to to the general public for a very long time. Whether human-like robots are developed and utilized, or robots continue to be non-interactive time saving devices, is something we will just have to wait and see.



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