Remote controlled grocery store robot.
If you can't get reliable staff locally, you can get staff in another country.
Even stacking shelves could be done in other countries!
From
Japanese robotics firm Telexistence.
Remote-controlled drones
(not controlled by AI)
play a major role in current precision warfare against individuals.
(Contrast with the simple
carpet bombing
of previous warfare.)
The remote-controlled
Predator
is in widespread use in combat,
for reconnaissance
and attacks on small targets (individuals, vehicles, etc.)
The remote-controlled
Switchblade
drone
by
AeroVironment
is a tiny "suicide" drone that can be carried in a backpack.
It is launched from a tube, and can be steered onto a target,
where it explodes.
It is already in use in combat.
Parrot AR.Drone.
Affordable quadrotor "drone"
that can be remote-controlled with iOS and Android devices.
Some people have programmed it to make it autonomous.
The Predator drone.
The
X-47B
is a larger unmanned bomber
with extra capabilities (stealth capability, invisible to radar,
faster, aircraft carrier launch and landing, midair refuelling).
Swarm of nano quadrotors.
Autonomous (not remote controlled).
From GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.
Intel light show with 1,500 drones.
Like fireworks, but flexible and intelligent.
Plans to use drones for general home delivery.
(Replacing FedEx, Amazon, pizza delivery, etc.)
Safety obviously a top concern.
(Though home delivery trucks and vans crash too.)
The film
Slaughterbots (2017).
A drama about how
swarms of miniature killer drones
could change warfare,
or even lead to a breakdown of society.
LANIUS drones
from Elbit Systems.
Autonomous recon in buildings and urban areas.
Human remote operator tracks camera and makes decision to explode.
The "trolley problem" in ethics.
Autonomous car software may actually have to make such decisions.
Traffic flow
could be much faster with software-controlled cars.
The above could be done - but would probably be too terrifying a ride for the humans!
A more synchronised (but still software-controlled) flow would be easier on the humans' nerves.
From Peter Stone.
