Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Top Four Predictions for Humanoid Robots That Will Shape The Future

When the first AI-powered humanoid robot Sophia was unveiled, the world could not help but admire this stunner, with its perfect face, doe eyes and an impressive sense of humor. This robot was a head turner for its exhibition of human values such as compassion, kindness, etc. In addition, it can understand languages, make eye contact, and recognize faces. Sophia may be extensively talked about but it is not the only humanoid robot to earn admiration. The cute tomato feeding Tomatina, fully programmable hospitality-bot Fabio and bipedal humanoid Atlas are other superstars.

The last decade saw outstanding growth in industrial growth, which has completely revolutionized the manufacturing sector; now humanoid robots that are not yet mainstream shall pace up. These humanoid robots are capable of doing a lot of activities just like humans line cleaning, answering calls, to cooking meals, it is safe to say that humanoid robots have come a long way. There are many admirers of this fast-growing technology and predict it to be the future. Some people are apprehensive about them, who believe they will cause more damage than help, including some great physicists and software moguls. The year 2019 is promising in the field of humanoid robotics and here is our take on it.


Mass Production

The idea of opening manufacturing units for the mass production of humanoid robots has been doing rounds from quite some time now. AkinSoft has set up the first such factory in Turkey with the name The AkinRobotics. They claim they will manufacture robots with the ability to speak, hear, smell, and will be able to use the internet in the future. With the fourth Industrial revolution around the corner, it is an obvious prediction that humanoid robots will be a significant outcome of it.

Taking over jobs

The biggest criticism of humanoid robots comes from those who believe that these machines would eventually take over many jobs, but then there is a section who thinks that dull and dangerous jobs can be assigned to them especially life-threatening works like welding, lumberjacking, coal mining, ground clearing after a disaster, etc. These jobs cause a lot of casualties and severe health ailments across the globe; it is wiser to hand over these jobs to robots. The jobs for humans shall also evolve with time, it is just like when computers came in circulation people had similar fears, but now the entire service sector has grown around it.

Will become part of every household

Experts have predicted that humanoid robots shall play the role of housekeepers, nannies and domestic help in the coming years. Where countries like Japan have already been welcoming to this idea as seen post the launch of Pepper in 2005, the other countries might also welcome them in their homes. Scientists have been able to program these robots with emotional attributes such as empathy and compassion, and it is most likely that the kids of this generation shall have a robot as their pal.
Caregivers for seniors

When on the one hand the advancement in medical sciences have increased the life expectancy and made the life of elders comfortable, on the other hand rising individualism has left them alone in their last years. In countries where the population growth is negative, and there is an ever-increasing population of older people humanoid robots can be a blessing. These robots can be a great asset as caregivers as they can give round the clock services to the aging people.

These humanoids are here to stay, now they are capable of doing simple chores, with time they will definitely take up high complex works. However, one cannot draw the exact timeline now but humanoid robots will make their presence felt more strongly in the coming years.


Sofia Williams
is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cybersecurity, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet, and new media. He writes for Norton security products at Webroot Support.









Friday, 1 February 2019

A New Sneaky Snowman Item Added to Fortnite

With a new Patch added to the Fortnite, various tweaks were made in the latest v7.20 update. In addition to such tweaks, an additional item was also introduced for players to enjoy in the game.

This new item provided players with an entirely new set of interactions for the players and has created an urge for players to become part of the snow.

Continuing with the winter based theme, this time Epic Games has included Sneaky Snowman to the game, this new item is capable of hiding the player by making them appear as a snowman.


The Fortnite is covered with a thick sheet of ice surrounding the entire map, and you can find the snowman scattered all across the field.

With the inclusion of this new item, players can change their appearance into a snowman and could be invisible from the nearby foes, as they would be unable to distinguish between you and the littered snowman on the field.

This new item can be considered as optional stealth mode that could provide protection from the surrounding enemies and squads. In addition, this new Sneaky Snowman item would also provide players with additional 100 shields.

As with the latest update, various Ice Fields also surround the map locations, and it becomes quite challenging to combat against the enemies and Fiends at the same time.

So players can opt for using the Sneaky Snowman to get away from the enemy fire while fighting the Ice Fiends; also it provides a range of new plans and strategies to combat against the other players and foes.

What is essential to understand is that various pro gamers and streamers exactly know this fact of hiding in the snow by using this item. Thus they tend to shoot at every Snowman they encounter.

This strategy provides complete Shorty of verifying that an enemy is present in disguise or not. Also, this item is unavailable while building structures, so it becomes a tricky job to assure complete safety in the Fortnite game.

It will be quite interesting to undermine the feature of this newly added item to the game as with the v7.20 update various other items have been removed from the game.

Mainly three items were unfortunately removed from the game, namely Quad Launcher, Grappler and Port A Fortress.

Hopefully, Sneaky Snowman won’t face any dilemma similar to the Infinity Blade and will be the part of Fortnite for at least this winter season.

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