Automation basically is a fairly big thing in today’s world and will definitely

particularly be a huge part of our lives 20 years in the future in a really big way. The
internet of things’ capacity mostly keeps increasing to definitely incorporate for all
intents and purposes more and definitely more new technologies for safety,
convenience and for entertainment in a generally major way. Let us take a look at
into what we really are expecting in the near future and technologies that will
hopefully be developed by that time, which for all intents and purposes is quite
significant.

The first basically major improvement still in trials basically is automated housing in a
definitely big way. You may have already heard of 3D printing and how, layer by layer
it can kind of produce a fully pretty functional definitely solid plastic object with
generally ease in a fairly major way. Similarly, a new technology essentially has been
invented by Fastbrick Robotics Limited, sort of contrary to popular belief. This
particularly is a Robot, which for all intents and purposes has been affectionately
basically termed as ‘Hadrian X’ which they claim actually is able to build houses, not
by magic, but by a similar process as 3D printing in a subtle way.

Hadrian, uses materials which specifically are fed into it and produces an actually real
house which is completely habitable by anyone, really contrary to popular belief. The
sort of material that Hadrian X really uses generally are specially constructed bricks
designed for increased support and to make it compatible with Hadrian’s Brick
building process. He definitely has a definitely main Body which particularly is
strategically placed in a place where it does not actually interfere with the brick
laying and then is fed via a conveyor system which really is connected to a sort of
long extendable arm which can move in all ranges of motion on all axis, which
actually is fairly significant. Of course, or pretty dear friend cannot actually do the job
all by himself and does require some pre and post help i.e., to set up the machine,
really lay the foundation, and do the cementing afterward, but he does really save a
lot of time and hand definitely human resources as the process for the most part is
automated, what could literally go wrong, which specifically is fairly significant.
Actually, for all intents and purposes many things, one small malfunction, even by
human error could cause a domino effect on all the bricks very poor Hadrian had laid
down, and what’s more, that would mostly leave him laying random bricks in the air.
Thus, Hadrian has to really be monitored continuously by someone to particularly
make really sure all essentially is really okay in a sort of major way. This brick building
literally marvel of a machine really is an actually great idea also, despite its really
many cons in a generally big way. It can handle all sorts of bricks and materials and
with a particularly little basically further development which is bound to essentially
be done by the definitely next 20 years, our houses could for the most part be
completely machine built, which would definitely for the most part be a
perfectionist’s dream, which really is quite significant. Houses can also be built in a
matter of days, rather than months or maybe even years for definitely bigger ones,
generally contrary to popular belief. Hadrian is capable of building a house in less
than a week (A fairly standard actually sized one).

We took a look at the industrial aspect of the new and upcoming technology topic,
no let us dive into farming. While this may not be as interesting to some people,
farming plays a massive role in making sure that you get your food on the table.
unlike our only dear friend – for now – Hadrian X, farming is quite a popular topic
that many companies are willing to experiment on. Farming in fact is even more
linked to the Internet of Things than construction as growing a plant is a tremendous
amount of effort for a robot to do as a plant needs a perfect balance of conditions to
grow and that is where monitoring systems face challenges. Let’s take a look at a few
examples and increase our knowledge on the subject.

Agrobot's mega robot has 24 robotic arms, each of which picks and harvests
strawberries. A combination of cameras and infrared depth sensors are used to feed
the artificial intelligence, which can then detect the strawberry's position and
ripeness. The stems are then cut by the robotic arms. Laser lidar is used to create a
3D map of the robot's surroundings for safety and obstacles. Which is a nice touch
to increase protection for human montors.

But there is nothing to protect the growth from weeds, The small robot company
takes care of that. They have created this weeding robot that uses short bursts of
man-made electrical lightning strikes. The weeding robot collaborates with another
robot tasked with mapping every millimetre of the field and monitoring the crops.
Instead of using chemicals, the weeding robot uses the data to autonomously move
around the field, locating weeds and targeting them with mini electrical lightning
strikes. This technology improves the soil fertility and preservers ground water
cleanliness.

Another interesting way to grow plants which is efficiently but wieldy in an

enclosure rather than them being grown in the wild is by Iron Ox who has created
entire year-round hydroponic farms that are run by robots. These indoor farms can
produce approximately 30 acres of food on a single acre of land. They use two
robotic arms for movement of plants and control of the placement of the plants,
weeds etc. The first moves plant trays around, while the second has a robotic arm
for manipulation tasks such as seeding and transplanting. The robots also use
machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect pests and diseases, removing
plants before they infect others which is a combination of the two technologies we
have seen earlier.

Let us explore one last example which uses a slightly different type of sensor,

Virgo is a high-speed automatic picking robot that can pick any type of crop from
tomatoes and strawberries to cucumbers and can select and pick only the ripe ones.
This picking robot by root ai runs on a track and can work in dense greenhouse
environments and at any time of day or night. But how does it know if the fruits are
ripe or not? The robot is equipped with an colour sensor and uses machine learning
and colour matching to differentiate between ripe and unripe fruits.

These farming technologies work quite decently on their own but it would definitely
be better to have all of them combined into one cohesive robot which could
perform all of these tasks close to flawlessly which would benefit the food
production industry. This would probably happen in those twenty years we have
been talking about. The cost for food would me much cheaper as they can be mass
produced without the need of many people to be present.
Finally, the most appealing topic to many tech buffs around the world, let us take a
look into autonomous vehicles which are a major focus in todays world and may
probably be fully functional in even less than the expected twenty years.

There are two types of driverless cars: Lane switching cars and fully autonomous
cars.

Lane switching cars like the tesla model S, can only switch lanes when in
autonomous mode. They cannot take turns or drive around like you normally would.

We are going to be focusing mainly on Fully autonomous cars which are still in
development and beta testing and are on the verge of public release.

A rotating device installed on top of this autonomous vehicle, sometimes mounted

on the bonnet, is called lidar. It acts as the eye of the self-driving vehicle, providing a
360-degree view of its surroundings in order to enable safe driving.

These light reflections are then utilised to generate a 3D point cloud. An on-board
computer captures each laser's reflection point and converts this constantly updated
point cloud into an animated 3D picture. The three-dimensional representation is
formed by measuring the speed of light and the distance it travels, which assists in
determining the vehicles position with regard to the items surrounding. The three-
dimensional representation is created by measuring the speed of light and the
distance it travels, which aids in identifying the vehicle's position in relation to the
surrounding items. The 3D representation also monitors the distance between
passing vehicles and any other vehicle in front; it also assists in slowing or stopping
the vehicle when the road ahead is clear; it can also allow the vehicle to accelerate.
Lidar is also being used in another project called pre scan. In pre-scan, a laser scans
the road surface several hundred times per second. This information is then
supplied to the car's onboard computer and processed in a fraction of a second,
adjusting the individual suspension for each wheel of the vehicle.

Driverless cars are fairly new and people are reluctant to start full on use with them.
Sensors can malfunction causing horrific accidents that not only takes lives of the
people in the car but also is a hazard to people on the road. Thus, an effective way
needs to be found with the least possible fail rate. IF this in non-achievable, then
rather than helping in accidents and making our lives more convenient, driverless
cars can be the new murderer of the roads. While progress is being made, it is
expected that driverless cars will be introduced shortly but may take quite a while to
be fully absorbed into the public due to the above-mentioned safety concerns, the
expense and the inconvenience of switching to another car.

From a business standpoint, driverless cars are a great new feature to add to the
specs of a new card you are planning to introduce. It is also more attractive to more
affluent customers as the LIDAR Technology comes at quite a hefty price tag but it’s
a trade off and is perfect for people who go on frequent road trips and are willing to
invest in buying one of these self-controlled moving machines. Why are people
willing to buy it even due to its safety risks? Safety risks may be prominent now but,
our science and tech friends promise us that more reliable solutions will be created
which will cause less overall deaths when looking at it from a broad perspective. This
is because, if the percentage of driverless car failures can be reduced below the
human error failures, then success is achieved as driverless cars will no doubt, make
the roads safer.

What does this all come to? Are we making the right choice in spending time and
effort in these technologies only to make us jobless in the future? That is a really
important factor to consider. All these marvellous technologies which are not so far
away will definitely make our lives more convenient and especially bring immense
profit to business people as they will not need to employ people for their work. But
this also comes at a major disadvantage. Normally, around 1000+ people would be
working at an establishment that mass produces fruit products and does the very
job that our robot friends are doing. Even in the Building industry, so many people
are required to build houses and what about chauffer’s, taxi drivers, whatever you
want to call them, what happens to them? Over 3.5 core drivers. All these people
would be left jobless as the autonomous bots would have replaced their jobs and
only thing they probably specialise in. Technology in this field is very delicate, a
perfect balance needs to be chosen between moral correctness, the lives of people
who are going to be sacked, and the benefits of it within your company. But all hope
is not lost yet. While most jobs are destroyed, new jobs open up such as supervisors
and people who manage and tend to the machines which is a small step to
improvement but not a permanent solution.