Aspiration fulfilment

Few years before, I dreamt of Robots, being exploited in my house for household tasks such as cleaning rooms, maintaining my garden etc.........

Through digit- September 2005 issue, I came to know that my aspiration will be fulfilled within a decade or two.Recent inventions and developments show that robots are beginning to walk,talk and even think like people.Scientists predict that, by 2010 bots (short form for robots) will be pedestrians like human beings.This is a task with tremendous challenge. But the challenge can be overcome through technologies that are innovative.

Kismet and Cog are such experimental robots that are being developed to meet the above mentioned requirements.Sony is one of the firms carrying out researches in this field.The main concentration is to develop bots which could recognize human emotions, react and adapt according to the needs and circumstances.But these developments are not well enough.AI is what the core factor should be.As of now there are no robots which could do household tasks.Robots with human-level intelligence is still far away from our dream.

Bots which are household helpers is what common men desire for.These creatures are expected to make us wake up in the morning, iron our clothes, cook our food, clean the house, and even read newspapers for us.......... so as to make us remain idle !. A panel of industries and academic experts predict that the personal bots will be as common as PCs and cell phones within 10 to 15 years.Developers and manufactures predict that the prices of these household helpers may not exceed those of commonly used laptops ie.around Rs 45,000.Incredible isn't it.

Thanks to the technological advancements.

But we should be conscious and vigilant in the fact that, " not to develop bots that are more intelligent than the human ", which would otherwise result in a world ruled by bots.The occurrence of such a disaster should be eliminated.The mantra should be - We should rule them.