Robots that can fly, control, help us to see, go and run… we can see that giant companies are making their best to build a new robot that can act and react as human.
Till now, we have most witnessed robots in the films. But it seems that their world and army are becoming true and real.
Today I saw an interesting article:
“Google has patented the ability to control a robot army”.
It was written about the most recent achievement in this field: “Google now wants to unleash an army of Rodney Dangerfield bots on the world”.
“The company outlines a system for “allocating tasks to a plurality of robotic devices.” This sounds innocuous enough—it could mean linking a series of factory robots together or perhaps a gaggle of Roombas to clean a large house—but the potential is much greater. Google’s patent outlines methods for connecting a series of robots over the cloud to complete tasks, but it doesn’t put a limit on how many robots could be managed at once.
The patent suggests that the robots could be controlled by a smartphone—Google’s mobile operating system is called Android, after all—with tasks doled out based on each robot’s ability to complete them. Someone could theoretically control the botswarm from anywhere in the world. As the patent puts it:
“The plurality of robotic devices of the system may be configured to receive information from the computing component via the network associated with instructions for performing one or more tasks.”
There are certainly legitimate applications of this that Google might have in mind. For example, making sure all of its self-driving cars can communicate with each other and be monitored from a central source seems like a (literal) no-brainer”.
I think whatever it will conclude; we will have a modern world in the next decades. That’s an important issue to me.
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