What Robots may do in 2045?

IT is the future of the world. Recently, Diwakar Vaish developed India’s first 3D-printed Humanoid Robot named Manav and his team is working on several other robotics projects. After 30 years, it is likely that the world’s population will include billions of people and billions of Robots, with the latter doing almost all the heavy, routine labour. People will work on improving the software for the Robots and the IT industry will be home to companies developing programmes for robots as they now develop apps for users to download and install.

To a certain extent, the boundaries between robots and humans will become blurred. Transplants using electronically controlled artificial organs and prosthesis will be a routine surgical procedure. Nanorobots will travel deep into the body to deliver drugs to diseased cells or perform microsurgery. Specially installed sensors will monitor people’s health and transmit their findings to a cloud based storage that can be accessed by the local doctor. All of this leads to a considerable increase in life expectancies.

Moreover, people will live in smart homes where most creature comforts will be fully automated. The software that runs the house will take care of energy, water, food supplies, and its replenishment. The resident only concern will be to ensure there is enough money in their bank accounts to pay bills. Our digital alter egos will finally be fully formed within a single global infrastructure capable of self-regulation and involved in managing life on the planet. The system will be geared towards distributing resources between people, preventing armed conflict and other humanitarian actions.

It will not just be dreary chores that are consigned to the history books; production of certain items will no longer be needed. Instead, 3D printers will enable us to design and create what we need. The PC might have started the whole IT boom, but by 2045, we will probably see it in museums. To be more precise, we will no longer need a single tool for working with data, which is basically a computer does.

There will be an even greater range of smarter devices and these different gadgets will steadily take over the functions of today’s PCs. For Example, financial analysis will be done by a server controlled by the organization concerned using electronic documents, not by an accountant on a PC. Not everyone will be excited by a brave new Robotic world. New Luddites will likely emerge to oppose the development of smart homes, automated lifestyles, and robots.