Here's What 150 Experts Say About the Future of Robotics

Some of the top minds in the field have some advice for the next presidential administration on how to proceed with robotics. Last week, a group of 150 experts from Google, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, UPenn, Yale, Georgia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon (to name a few) published the latest edition of the Roadmap for Robotics, a report that outlines the industry's future. The 100-page paper is meant to serve as a guide to what sorts of developments the tech industry should strive for and what types of technologies Congress should invest in. The experts offer specific suggestions as to how the U.S. should allocate funds toward advancing robotics and lays out suggestions for regulation. For one, it suggests robotics companies be required to offer more transparency regarding the tasks that their machines can and cannot perform.