Future of ROBOTICS

• 2015-2020 - every South Korean and many European households will have a robot, The Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea), 2007
• 2018 - robots will routinely carry out surgery, South Korea government 2007
• 2022 - intelligent robots that sense their environment, make decisions, and learn are used in 30% of households and organizations - TechCast
• 2030 - robots capable of performing at human level at most manual jobs Marshall Brain
• 2034 - robots (home automation systems) performing most household tasks, Helen Greiner, Chairman of iRobot
• 2050 - robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence

Military robots :

• 2015 - one third of US fighting strength will be composed of robots - US Department of Defense, 2006
• 2035 - first completely autonomous robot soldiers in operation - US Department of Defense, 2006

Developments related to robotics from the Japan NISTEP 2030 report :

• 2013-2014 — agricultural robots (AgRobots,).
• 2013-2017 — robots that care for the elderly
• 2017 — medical robots performing low-invasive surgery
• 2017-2019 — household robots with full use.
• 2019-2021 — Nanorobots