They clean the house, take us to work, guard our homes, explore space, replace parts that have failed in our bodies, fight with us on the battlefields and perform surgical procedures on us - robots 2012 non-fiction science film
By: Gil Artzi - Head of the Mechatronics and Electronics course at Rupin College of Technology
Robots that replace humans or help them in performing various actions have been known to us from science fiction films since the middle of the 21th century. With the beginning of the XNUMXst century, we discovered that the prophecies of many M.D.V. films were already woven of skin and tendons or should we say metal and threads. Many companies in the world are in a race to develop robotic systems for various uses in everyday life and for this purpose huge capital is invested in the field.
How far is the Hollywood script from the truth? In this article we will try to make a comparison between the great film inventions and the great robotic and mechanical science inventions. Does reality exceed any imagination?
The first topic that many science fiction films deal with is the transplantation of robotic organs into an organic body.
Will Smith as the star of the movie "I Robot" (I Robot) from 2004 presents the picture of the world in 2035 in which the world is "flooded" with robots performing various tasks including: policing, service and diverse life activities. The film also shows the implantation of a robotic organ in an organic body, although this is possible in reality.
Not only is this possible, but it already exists. In the last ten years we have witnessed many cases of transplanting organs of different names in humans. Bionic arms assembled as prostheses and controlled by the brain and nervous system are currently being installed as part of experiments conducted around the world, and developments of robotic organs that are transplanted organically are no longer a thing of fiction.
Many commercial companies see robotics as a huge potential in the fields of medicine, security and quality of life. Many of the robots on which commission companies are designed to replace a human hand and thus allow for minimal risk and increased accuracy when performing the operation. As happened in many industries in the past, a large part of the robotic development budgets are directed to the military and medical applications, but following them a big boost is also given to the commercial applications.
A second topic that many science fiction films deal with is a car that drives without a driver or a hovering car in many films including "The Fifth Element" we are exposed to cars that drive by themselves - without the need for a driver, Bruce Wills got into the yellow cab and the car's robot, recognized him, calculated a route for him and began to travel. and hover cars.
In reality: route calculation by satellites is already available to each of us on our smart cell phone. A car that knows how to drive with remote control has existed for decades, the connection of the two technologies together is already found today in many luxury vehicles in which the vehicle can be directed to an automatic driver. However, the car is subject to controlled instructions and commands and does not develop its own personality on the road.
As for hovering cars - already today there are trains operating on a magnetic field throughout Europe and Asia, the trains hover in the air the entire time they travel above the tracks. These trains are very quiet and develop extremely high speeds - there are speculations that in the future more vehicles will use this technology.
Human robots
In the "The Matrix" movie series, we were exposed to robots that have intelligence and the ability to distinguish between situations, just like humans. However, will robots also succeed in developing human intelligence in reality?
In Japan, there is an entire technological genre that focuses mainly on the production of "human" robots, the Japanese invest a huge fortune in mechanics and sophisticated designs in order to bring us emotionally closer to the engineering wonder and make us feel emotions for it. An example of this is the Boston Dynamics company that develops robots based on the famous AI features, including the Big Dog and Alpha Dog robots. The Israeli Lahav plant of the Aerospace Industry also developed the Rex-Kaleb robot. However, is it really possible to develop emotions into robotic animals or objects? Many studies that focused on the topic of copying emotions found that people do indeed develop emotional ties to their objects, including robots, thanks to their great response to the user, which enables the creation of strong personal relationships. Therefore, it is likely that in the future the robot will be man's best friend.
Robots used in policing and maintaining public order
In 1951, in the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (The Day the Earth Stood Still), a robot representing a race of robots used for policing and maintaining order in the entire galaxy was introduced.
In reality, robots do not patrol our streets, but we witness various types of robots that help the security forces to carry out their duties. Special cameras that recognize an image, speed sensors on the roads and even car detection and sending reports after recording traffic violations are common tools we meet in many places.
Many people are not aware that the field of robotics is closely related to the field of mechatronics. Mechatronics is actually an engineering field, which has developed greatly in recent years in the Israeli economy and in the global economy and is the source of all the technological innovations to which we are exposed in recent years.
Mechatronics combines all the traditional engineering subjects and creates an interesting integration between mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, control engineering and software engineering.
This unique and professional integral combination between the various engineering professions allows practitioners in the field to break new ground in the world of technology and develop the next generation of smart machines or perhaps more correctly to say - smart robots.
It can be seen that in parallel with the expansion of work in the fields of robotics in the world, there is an increased demand for mechatronics people, engineers and engineers, who are the people who are actually responsible for the development, production and operation of the robots. Israel, by the way, is located in an excellent place in terms of the development of advanced technologies of this type.
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How classic that a post about futurism is already outdated
at the time of writing it
Israeli company Mivneh develops an aviation vehicle
Based on an internal flight plan for a flight within a city
The vehicle is very reminiscent of the movie The Fifth Element
Search for xhawk
There is already a tiny plane that folds into a car and has already been received
US licensing.
There are robots that perform motorized patrol along borders
of sensitive facilities. One of them is Israeli from Elbit
If I'm not mistaken.
If I try to step in time a little bit, and watch what application gets hacked, well,
Each person has unique characteristics even without a chip or electronic device,
He will be under a continuous monitoring and control system from the day he is formed in the womb... until the day he dies... and maybe longer
To monitor health parameters in his body, and his personal safety
to monitor the movement and actions of criminals, terrorists, enemies,
I take into account that there is a growing population that without medicine would not have survived, therefore the need for proper monitoring and response
Medically growing. Another thing we witness is that, despite all the investments and programs, they fail to actually reduce, "over time" the cases of violence, rape, and robbery.
Trying to read one of the publications,,,,
"It is true that the sanctity of privacy is violated, by the fact that we are under surveillance, but in addition to that privacy, security and health."
There is a big difference between technological ability and practical technology. It is true in theory that there are robots, there are programs that drive cars by themselves and there are trains on magnets, but what is the difference between this and everyday technology?
I also read science fiction books about technologies that allow each person to hover and fly at will and I could even write an article claiming that the future has been here for a long time. It is true that levitation pods have existed since the 60s, but they never became common property and can only be seen in performances for the general public, so I claim that the reality described in the fictional books is not here yet, since they did not describe technology, they described a different way of life.
Regarding trains operating on a magnetic field
The reality is probably less glamorous than the imagination
In practice, the maintenance of their track and its construction at the desired levels of accuracy costs a huge fortune
In addition to all this, at least from my personal experience, the feeling of traveling on the fastest train in the Maglev world is less smooth and pleasant (shaking from side to side)
Traveling on high-speed trains on wheels that reached 300 km/h
Maybe the reason is that in the conventional trains the wheels with shock absorbers are better than the magnetic train
In imagination magnetic levitation dampens all shocks
In the harsh reality it hovers over the rail and any inaccuracy passes
The positive impression of the magnetic train is its incredible acceleration
Perhaps after all imagination is a basis for reality?!