The Future This Week: Robots, Hospitals, and Holographic Doctors

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder sends out its robotic helpers in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from robotic farmers to holographic doctors. Whether we’re using robots to aide patients or local farmers, or we’re using advanced technology to better connect doctors with their patients, the future is increasingly becoming an intelligent, connected world where everyone benefits in both the short and long run.

This is the future we’re creating – one of which people are uplifted, poverty is eliminated, diseases are cured, and the world thrives as one. We may not see it right now, but the future is heavily reliant on the technologies of which we’re creating today. We may not to create a perfect world as a result, but our aim is techno-utopia. Welcome to the future!

Developed by Bosch’s Deepfield Robotics, a new outdoors farming robot dubbed Bonirob has been engineered to take up the tasks of modern farming, plant breeding, and weed killing. SOURCE

UI designer Tatsuya Honda has recently unveiled the Ontenna – a tiny device which, when clipped on a deaf user’s hair like a hairclip, can translate nearby sounds by using light and vibrations. SOURCE

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Based in Toronto, Ontario, Humber River Hospital is being hailed as the first ever fully digital hospital in North America, equipped with the most advanced technology to date and robots operating throughout its facility. SOURCE

During a conference hosted by the University of Southern California, researchers announced the formation of a new health clinic, called the USC Virtual Care Clinic, with future goals of developing holographic doctors. SOURCE