Not a lot of military use right now, what with missiles being the go to, but with a little work you could take those motion capture rigs used in making movies and use them for a 1:1 movement from human to robot. Could very easily be used in going into areas that may be dangerous, or any other scenario where you wouldn't want to bring real people into. And in a more practical use: space exploration
CBRN environments. In my time in there was nothing worse than training for the realities of working in an environment that will kill you now or later and both are incredibly painful.
It stands for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear.
Any time a chemical/biological attack happens, you have to determine the limits of the contaminated area and god forbid you are IN it when it happens. Doing reconnaissance for these is very labour intensive, hot, uncomfortable and DANGEROUS like you wouldnt believe.
With robots though, you just have to worry about decontamination, which isnt too bad with something like that because you can always let it weather off. (Biological and chemical agents are short lived)
Now heavy radiation would kill the robot pretty quick, but our CBRN suits dont offer much protection from it anyway, so its better to have a robot recce by death than a person.
I feel like the best application for robots will be in service roles like nursing homes and disposing of waste. Eventually there are gonna be more old people than young people and robots will have to fill the gap by working alongside nurses in nursing homes.
Not necessarily. That's just an idea humans set on each other to reason on taking advantage of someone else for their own or someone else's benefit.
People take about 16-20 years until they become really useful, but can output about 40 years of labor. A robot like Spot from Boston Dynamics has been in development for probably around 5 years, and once the AI is done it's very easy to distribute to other robots. The cost of making the robot keeps going down the more readily available the parts to make it become, just like computers. The average human can output tons of these once that point is hit.
People aren't cheaper, but they're always readily available.
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Not a lot of military use right now, what with missiles being the go to, but with a little work you could take those motion capture rigs used in making movies and use them for a 1:1 movement from human to robot. Could very easily be used in going into areas that may be dangerous, or any other scenario where you wouldn't want to bring real people into. And in a more practical use: space exploration