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New prostheses and robot vehicles are impressive.


"Experimental tests on robotic prosthesis: clothespin. Credit: © 2024 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna" (ScitechDaily, “It Feels Like I’m Moving My Own Hand” – Science Fiction Comes to Life With Magnetic Prosthetic Hands)


The new advances in AI and computing make it possible to create new advanced robots. Those robots can transmit their senses to their users. 

New advances in robotics and AI are tools that are making new solutions that seem like SciFi possible.  By using those new tools researchers can make prostheses with touch and self or half -self-driving cars possible. The prosthesis with a sense of touch is a big thing. We all know that. But it can be even bigger than we ever imagined. That system allows to creation of new tools like external bodies. The external body, or exobody means remotely controlled robots that can transmit a sense of touch and all other senses to the user. 

This thing makes those robots very good tools for things like high-risk missions in civil and military sectors. The ability to transmit a sense of touch to users makes also things like space suits and high-pressure diving equipment more useful than they are now.



Self-driving cars are also interesting tools. If users have access to those robot vehicles' operating systems using the intelligent watch or watch phone. That allows users to call the car to take them from a certain place. The car requires only the GPS coordinates of the place, and it can drive itself to take that caller with it. This is one version of the robot cars. 

Robot cars are tools that can make many things easier than humans. That kind of car might have a small quadcopter in the chamber on the roof. This quadcopter makes it possible for the driver, to search for free parking lots. And if that quadcopter hovers above the car, it can help the AI-based parking system. These kinds of systems are tools that can make life easier. But in the wrong hands, those systems make terrible things. 

The same technology used in self-driving cars can also serve people in warehouses. The fact is that AI that operates in a limited area is easier to make than AI that operates on open roads. The system can interact with robots and it can use the personal location devices that people can use in warehouses to operate robots safely. In city areas is impossible to order people to carry personal location detectors. 

Even if the robot cars cannot drive independently safely, those systems can operate under the remote control. Remote control means that the remote driver can operate those cars. Those things are safe if there are algorithms that deny misuse of the system. If some person just sits in a front chair and then starts to sleep while the car drives independently that can cause a risk situation. 


https://bigthink.com/the-future/driving-automation/


https://scitechdaily.com/it-feels-like-im-moving-my-own-hand-science-fiction-comes-to-life-with-magnetic-prosthetic-hands/

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