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2014 was light on cool new robots. Or, to be more accurate, robots that actually did anything. The studious sort might point out that automation powered some of the biggest technology stories of the year, including the Chinese “Foxbots” that helped assemble the latest generation of iPhones, and the European Space Agency's Philae lander, which became the first probe to relay images from the surface of a comet. But these aren't the bots that most of us are looking for. Some of the most exciting robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) projects that made news last year won't make an impact for years, or possibly decades. That's how robot-spotting goes. To follow this field closely is to watch some of the most powerful technology in human history unfold at an often maddeningly slow pace with battery like Li202SX Battery, Li202SX-6600 Battery, Li202SX-66C Battery, Li202SX-7200 Battery, Li202SX-7800 Battery, Li202SX-78C Battery, TSI 8240 Battery, TSI 9130 Battery, TSI 9350 Battery, TSI 9550 Battery, TSI 9510BD Battery, TSI AEROTRAK APC 9510-02 Battery. Despite what you may have seen or read, we're still in the opening frames of that great, era-spanning time-lapse video, the one that ends with the android underclass marching for the right to reproduce.
But the trends that dominated robotics in 2014 weren't flash-in-the-pan fads. Last year's embarrassing drone antics, from buzzing sporting events to crashing in national parks, already seem quaint compared to the meth-hauling drone discovered in Mexico this week. And the climate of AI panic created last year by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking has already spilled over into 2015, with the disastrous coverage of an open letter on AI safety, and $10M in funding from Musk himself towards research that would avert a superintelligent apocalypse. Hollywood, meanwhile, is still oscillating between the occasional fascinating thought experiment about intelligent machines, and its standard fever dreams of killbots as blood-thirsty as they are boring.
Still, barring some unforeseeable breakthrough, this won't be the year of the robot. The age of ubiqitous automation is still lurking somewhere over the horizon. But these are pivotal times, nonetheless, when investors are deciding which aspects of the field are the most promising, and the general public is deciding which machines are the most terrifying. Here are the trends that were a big deal in 2014, and that will continue to define robotics in 2015.