Suppose leading to a Wal-Mart and or else of a car or pickup with a revolving orange light on top a littler robot scrambles across he parking lot with an orange hat. As it proceeds it escapes water on the ground, not very much, but just sufficient to looking like it is leaking out a little. What is that water trail? It is vapor or consume, the exhaust of a fuel cell passing an electric motor. The Robot video tapes the parking lot, patrols the red zones and tries to save your brand new SUV from runaway shopping cart therapy?
It ranges by and supposes; “Thank you for buying at at Wal-mart” as it patrols. It feels for all kinds of stuff such as babies in cars with the windows tied up or cars making burnouts in the parking lot as it plays to get it all on tape and send the video feed in real time to the local police section. The more vigour it exercises the more evaporation water is left fallen. The fuel cells generate electrical energy to ability up an electric motor and the surveillance video cameras and of course the robots brains. A chemical response between hydrogen and oxygen is getting all this happen using the fuel cell technologies. Once In A While as the robot hits over a speed bump you might see a dull vapor or fog poof out the back, but all in all this is an choice fueled robot, which is environmentally intimate.
In fact this is not science fiction, as researchers in Tokyo have made such a robot and it is set for sale now. Guess Wal-Marts cost economies by letting go if its certificate guard contracts and greeters at its 8,000 outlets. Surely from an economies of scale scenario this is easier than RFID tags on its pallets. One company; Sohgo Security Services Co. is working on a robot which can go one week without recharge and they are looking at more than just security. Receptionists, car wash individual, warehouse labor and mos making up jobs will shortly be affairs of the past. Robot gardeners, landscapers, pool cleaning, house maids are almost all getting to market now and the mass marketing potential of a strong US based center class has many a consumer leaving to put their money where they desires are. Sohgo has a robot they call C-4, Guard Robo and today it goes 2.5 hours on a lead battery, alike to those ride on wheel chairs. It can work as a receptionist while lodging and then do a perimeter sweep and go back and charge over again.
The Robot is completely wire-less sending back a complete video and alarms signals. Robots, which often use ultrasound waves sensors, lidar and infrared to work, do not need actual light and if made quiet enough can scare the ever living bejesus out of an intruder. With all the work at the major robotic research Universities, robots can have faces, body parts and communicate as they patrol with the humans they interact with.
The future is here, you are just not paying attention to all the latest developments.