Thank you to “AI Uncovered” with 68K subscribers for this 11-minute update on some new and not-so-new technologies that will impact our future. Here are the 10 Next Big Things In Technology in this video:
- Human-like robots
- Necrobotics – in the early stages, turning dead things into robots, e.g., a dead spider becomes a gripper
- E-Skin – being developed to allow what is felt in one location to be transferred over long distances.
- Advanced personal assistants – more advanced than Siri or Alexa, to accomplish complex tasks
- Sand batteries – sand can be used as a battery to store energy
- Brain reading robots – using a brain-computer interface, which for example, can be used for brain-controlled wheelchairs
- AI in everyday life – currently, AI is used by about 50% of the world’s population. In the future, this will grow and be used in more and more applications
- Smelly VR – a VR device that lets you smell things like in a movie of the future
- Spin launch – a new system is being developed to launch objects into space using kinetic energy instead of rockets
- Virtual and Augmented Reality – the market and applications are growing