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Robotics: Robots are Starting to Be Used for Healthcare, Agriculture, Education and More
Robots are gaining popularity fast. IDC says that global spending on robotics and services are expected to climb to $135.4 billion by 2019 from $71 billion in 2015. In particular, strong growth is expected in Asia and Japan where 65 percent of the spending will occur.
Ray Kurzweil wrote in 2001 that technology is rapidly transforming the world into one that will be very different even in just a few decades from the one that we currently live in. He wrote that “we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).” Robots, Big Data, Machine Learning, Mobile, the Cloud… — these are just of the few components that are driving the rapid change.
Dr Jing Bing Zhang, Robotics research director at IDC said that “robotics is one of the core technologies that is enabling significant change in manufacturing through factory of the future initiatives. While traditionally used in the automotive industry, there is an increasing adoption of robotics in sectors like electronics, retail, healthcare, logistics, agriculture, services, education, and government. Such broad-based growth in robotic adoption is being driven by increasing labour costs, shortage of skilled labuor, and an increasing emphasis on repeatable quality in conjunction with a reduction in prices of robotic systems and strategic national initiatives.”
