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How autonomous would our future be?

Technology will be the main force of our future, the scenes we used to imagine in the scientific movies are happening, but what would our future be like? How autonomous would it be? Let’s give it rational speculation based on what we have now.

We already have drones and robots. Vehicles, large or small, both belong to robots, just in different shapes. Besides, we have unmanned cars already, and unmanned will be the major trend for sure. Let’s keep digging into the unmanned part, which takes both software OS support and power issue solved. Software is updating every day and seems not far away from there, but the power problem is a bone in the throat that has troubled us forever, and there is little hope of creating the perpetual motion machine. Until then we need to find other ways to solve the power problem. 



There is an interesting point of view, we human being needs sleep and eat to power ourselves, and we invent houses and restaurants for that. Why not power robots with a house like a gas station to a car, we can make a powerhouse, a robot hotel. The size probably can be flexibly adjusted for different robots, we can build a big box-shaped robot charging house for small size drones that have dozens of floors to contain multiple drones, or a flat apartment for large size of robots, robots can be lifted to the spared room for recharging and left the apartment after fully charged, like we human stay in a hotel.



The logistics industry is thriving and has no reason to be removed from the major industries, but future logistics shall be more intelligent and unmanned. If an industry is dragging a lot of human resources at a cost far beyond the average income, this kind of development is healthy and will have to change sooner or later. The fundamental trouble of logistics is the package transportation, drone just started to participate in logistics, carrying relatively small and light packages from one place to another, but the distance is limited due to the flight time, and here we are, back to the power issue again. Recharge a drone autonomously is solved by the drone charging docks, at least seven brands in the market currently, problem solved partly. There are cabinets containing packages that can automatically open the corresponding door with the right code, that’s a big move towards the unmanned process, too. Only if we can integrate the drone transportation with the cabinet, let a drone drop the package into the cabinet, then recharge and get ready for the next transport mission. 

An autonomous charging apartment for robots and package cabinets with drone recharging devices seems pretty future to me. What do you think? 

 

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