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In 2011, NASA delivered the first robot to the International Space Station. The Robonaut 2 was largely immobile and served little more as a display than anything else, but cemented the idea that the future of space exploration would be in the hands of autonomous machines.
A tiny mechanical “wrist” could give needlescopic surgery a new degree of dexterity.
In 2015, cyborgs are a recognizable reality. Scientists at Johns Hopkins have already fashioned robotic arms that can perform basic motions controlled by human nerves, not following a programmed sequence.
