Monday, August 29, 2016

Tiny bots are proliferating

The age of tiny bot is upon us. 

Bots abut the size of a tab of butter. They have GPS and can control movement mechanisms.

Some wander about the house taking video from an insect perspective, some fly paper airplanes, attach them to your tennis racket and record movement, attach them to your child, have them crawl up your tree. They will make child toys creepy and programmable, a deviant delight.

You a farmer? Put these cheap bots on top of sticks and set them around your field, get and instant close up view, control your irrigation. These bots can do precision weeding, like a gardener, when attached to the back of an intelligent plow.

Put the bots in water proof bubbles and toss them into the sea for continuous temperature and current measurements. Tiny bots drive the fracking business in oil.

Jobs? Get into bot software, not just program but assemble components of bot software for specific applications. Produce generic bot hardware, a huge business of add ons. lidar models for spatial recognition, like radar. Components and parts for that add on business is huge, and growing fast. Add on the micro step motors used for actuators. Everywhere, a globe with a dusting of silicon intelligence just about everywhere.

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