Robot Renaissance Map
A Robot Renaissance is Underway
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In the next decade, we will share our offices, hospitals, schools, battlefields, nursing homes, and homes with a new breed of companion. A robot renaissance is underway.
After decades of hype, false starts, and few successes, smart machines are finally ready for prime time. As part of its 2010 research, IFTF's Technology Horizons program has created the Robot Renaissance: the Future of Human-Machine Interaction Map to explore this new robotic future.
The first robot boom was in the 1950s, when factory workers met the first industrial age robots. Now, as robots move out of the factories and make real a century of science fiction, we will once again see these machines in a new light, and we will also reconsider how we see ourselves.
The Robot Renaissance Map is a tool to help navigate the coming changes, designed to spark excitement, and even cautious optimism, about the possible futures of human-machine interaction.
Welcome to the Robot Renaissance!
The first robot boom was in the 1950s, when factory workers met the first industrial age robots. Now, as robots move out of the factories and make real a century of science fiction, we will once again see these machines in a new light, and we will also reconsider how we see ourselves.
The Robot Renaissance Map is a tool to help navigate the coming changes, designed to spark excitement, and even cautious optimism, about the possible futures of human-machine interaction.
Welcome to the Robot Renaissance!
Publication Date
2010
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