Embrace a future with robots | Jason Kerestes | TEDxCharleston

Though the word 'robot' has been around for nearly a hundred years, the modern concept of the robot is much more recent. Engineer and researcher Jason Kerestes says we are on the verge of the next wave of robots driven by an increased computational power that has occurred much faster than anticipated. How will these changes impact the average man?

Not only smarter and faster, new robots are taking shapes not seen before and performing tasks previously not thought possible. Continuing research and technology experts are disrupting the way we see robotics used in our everyday spaces, and forcing us to rethink the ways robotic processes are changing nearly every industry down the line. This talk takes you on a journey into the past where we explore where Robotics began, then leap forward to explore how the development of smart and agile robots will benefit us all.

Jason Kerestes has developed robotic exoskeletons, a jetpack, and other robotics for DARPA research labs, the military and Boeing. He was featured on the science and discovery channel show “Mythbusters: The Search” to bring science and engineering to the next generation of Mythbuster fans.

[thierryflaven]

Haha The French guys "running out of visa" is still very proud to have found and worked with someone as good as you! Not the best old pic of the 4mm golf car structure by the way but tkx for the wink there. Great work and story ++

[contrafax]

Read Kurt Vonnegut's, "Player Piano."

[KrisssValnor]

I wish I could give my mom such robotic augumented skeleton… 😢

[petergould]

This talk tries to be positive postulating that if we get smarter that we can stay useful. Yet the possibilities with AI and robotics frighten me. When AI gets smart enough to reprogram itself better than we can, and as the rate of improvements gets faster and faster we may find that we are being replaced faster than we can retrain or come up with new applications for ourselves. Also some people function at a different level mentally than others. For every person with an IQ of 115, who might make a decent programmer, there is someone with an IQ of 85. How many of these new jobs are accessible to people of below average mental capacity?