Future Development #1 - Robots

Robots. To some a typical metal box with un-natural movement and speech which is probably not worth the cost to make, but to some it's a lot more than that, a real life-like human, that is still very expensive. Robots are essentially computers, they are operated by computer software, and this makes it very difficult to make robots like humans. Computers are very good at what human are very bad at such as complex maths equations quickly, but are very bad at things we find easy and do naturally such as recognising objects.

But with a few companies investing a lot of money in research and development of robots they have come on leaps ad bounds recently, below is a video of a robot called 'Asimo' developed by Honda.

As you can see from the video, this isn't your typical robot that you see in animation films, this is a real robot that actually aids humans. However this still isn't cheap, Asimo has lots of expensive technology including sensors, microphones etc.

So while Robots are very much a reality for big companies, it may still be some time before we have them around the home helping us, or sometime before they take over the world, but this is definitely an exciting development and something we should be excited about seeing them in the future.