Reading about batterry limitations and mechanical degrees of freedom, it makes me wonder. What keeps the creators of humanoid-like robots to utilize the nanotechnology approach? Recent advancements in tissue-like materials is a clear sign to explore this approach to create a robot that is organic. Yes, a robot with an artificial heart that pumps artificial blood to power itself. Imagine creating a replica of a human not through cloning but, rather, from organic tissue-like parts. Of course the hardest part of such creation is the brain. Still, I think if enough innovative minds put toward this ideal, it won't be impossible. What engineers, who invent mechanical robots, lack is understanding that the easiest way to approach the success of creation of self powering, and self-aware robot, is concentration on the fact that Imagination is the center of all thought process. In other words, creating a robot that has an imagination in its brain processing, a robot which can imagine. Once this vital aspect is acknowledged the technological breakthroughs will start appearing like mushrooms after a rain in the forrest.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, Einstein once said. This saying is tangible to everything we create around us.
Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.orgOriginally posted by pageflex