The fundamental principal behind evolution of businesses is its ability to follow needs and patterns of human behavior. The commercialization that internet brought with it has changed the business rules by leaps and bounce. With the inception of Mobile communication, there is a euphoria of hearing and realizing unlimited scopes of connectivity & accessibility. On top of this imagine, the flavor of Robotics, what finally emerges is a lethal combination of Mobility, Accessibility, Robotics & Connectivity and I call it “MARC”.
You identify any industry and this combination is opening new possibilities. It will alter the way business is carried out today.
Robotics and Internet of Things (IoT):
The Internet of things broadly refers to uniquely recognizable entities or objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. The IoT denotes unconventional connectivity of devices, systems, and services that leads beyond the old-style M2M and covers a variety of protocols, knowledge bases and applications. Though currently there may be no regular definitions for the Internet of things, but still there is an exciting era waiting for it to roar and explode. Meanwhile, something which has kept technology enthusiasts busy is the possibility of IoT and Robotics supported through Cloud Apps, the trio that may open huge scopes in the future. The smart objects can provide sensing, robots can act and processing can be on the Cloud. Instead of programming robots to cover every potential state, then it could produce a state of affairs in which the objects on their own inform robots of their design and use. A kind of a collaborative ecosystem where Robots, smart objects handled over the cloud with minimal human intervention communicate each other for a certain project that requires to be carried out. A self-learning capacity can help repeating and improving such tasks drastically
“MARC” IN Health Care
Nothing better than this “MARC” revolutionizing the Health Care sector. It may make a huge difference in the way patients are given treatment at the hospital with the support that is created for doctors to perform medical procedures. Robotics can be carefully adopted in hospitals and health care. Right from handling laundry work, for making rounds in the hospital wards keeping vigil on the patients to doctors remotely monitoring illness symptoms of the patients rather than relying on second-hand observation. Robotics can help reduce human error especially when it comes to giving out prescriptions in case of over dosages or mixed medications. There are many reports like the one published by The Wall Street Journal which suggests that that there will be scores of “service robots” entering the healthcare sector within the next few years.
“MARC” in Weather Disasters
In situations of Tsunami and Cyclones, this MARC can make a huge difference. A highly advanced weather forecast information system closely associated to the team of collaboratively communicating Robots can operate very effectively not just before the catastrophe strikes, but also deployed in disaster affected area as a disaster relief team. Airlift of disaster struck victims were a remotely governed helicopter with a Robot Pilot and rescuers as Robots can be highly effective and game changer in difficult times
“MARC” In the Defense
The use of MARC in defense can reduce combat soldiers. We are already witnessing usage of drones for aerial surveys extensively. From a military strategic view, one can say introducing Robots in the combat means reducing manpower without giving up firepower The unmanned ground vehicles and drones together could help the Army move towards becoming a lesser but more lethal, deployable and agile force. But again this has to be treated with precision and care since this may result into more lethal attacks finally on civilians involved on the sides of two warring countries
Conclusion
Things are rapidly developing in this area and there are some serious players, technology enthusiasts and some amateurs already into it. The days are not far behind when all the walkways of life and Industry sectors will witness this “MARC” which has started making transformation already