This was a good question and I did not know either until after this article from Interesting Engineering (interestingengineering.com). Here is the article by Grant Currin:
"It's why Hyundai paid $880 million for Boston Dynamics.
What happens when you put robots everywhere and connect them to the metaverse?
Hyundai has a name for that sci-fi version of the future — metamobility. In a sweeping keynote at CES in Las Vegas, leaders from the South Korean automotive company made it clear why they decided to buy robot maker Boston Dynamics last June: that company’s versatile, agile robots are ideal for uniting the metaverse with the physical world. Euisun Chung, executive chair of Hyundai Motor Group, went so far as to say that his company’s “mobility devices and services will all include robotic functions.”
What the presentation lacked in details (and it lacked a lot in details) it made up for in vision.
Metamobility will extend what humans can do — and what they can experience
The CEO said today’s gaming-centric metaverse is an early iteration of a digital-physical space that will be much more tangible in the future — far more important in the everyday lives of ordinary people. Metamobility will “build a bridge between the physical world and new digital realities,” he said, leading to a world where “space, time, and distance will all become irrelevant.”
One of the first places metamobility could show up is on the factory floor. The adoption of such technology has been accelerated by the pandemic, with travel restrictions making it more difficult than normal for technicians and engineers to travel to far-flung plants. Toyota’s T-HR3 robot already offers similar capabilities. The humanoid robot can be controlled by a remote user in the company’s Master Maneuvering System, which is a large piece of hardware that maps the user's hand, foot, and arm motions and sends that data to the robot. The user can see what the robot sees, making it possible to accomplish tasks almost as if the user were in the robot’s place.
Chang Son, Hyundai’s president of Autonomous Transportation-as-a-service, summed up the idea behind metamobility, saying “robots are ready and waiting for us to connect with them through the metaverse.” He described a future where everyday people will use robots as physical avatars. He said that, for example, he might be able to use his own physical avatar to play with and take care of his dog in South Korea while he attends a future CES in Las Vegas. He would enter a VR version of his home and guide his companion robot to “feed and hug [his] dog” from halfway around the world. Even more surprisingly, he said the experience could be realistic enough for him to “feel all the joy of being right next to [his] dog” — from thousands of miles away. “By connecting robots to the metaverse, we’ll be able to move freely between both worlds,” he said.
Maybe he’ll even be able to have a descendent of Spot, Boston Dynamic’s controversial robot dog, keep his pooch company when he exits the metaverse to give an in-person talk from the CES stage. "
Interesting, but we have seen this in a movie back in 2009 called Surrogates, Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots. The people lived out their lives using their robots while laying in bed. Not a life I would choose and this does have some health issues if this becomes mainstream. There is also the security concerns if your metarobot is hacked and robs a bank. Who will be responsible? There will be some interesting legal issues with this as well I am sure. In any event interesting none the less.
References:
https://interestingengineering.com/what-does-metamobility-actually-mean
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
Not a fan of a Defense Agency studying Anti-Gravity and other Exotic Tech, but if the commercial world and make this technology cheap that will change our world yet again. The following is about three minute read and from www.gaia.com. The below was written by Hunter Parsons:
"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
Of particular interest are some 1,600 pages released to Vice News, which ...
As our technology gets better we are discovering more about the history of mankind and pushing the timeline back further and further. The following article is from www.gaia.com and written by Michael Chary that discusses this new find that changes the historical timeline:
"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
Not sure if you have heard of a show on YouTube called "The Why Files". If not you should check it out it is interesting and has some humor with it on different subjects. Last weeks was on a different theory how the Universe works and how main stream Science is attempting to shut it down like is always seems to do if it goes aguest some special interest. Today it is akin to what happened to those who questioned the Earth was the Center of the Universe that main stream so called Science all believed during the Renaissance period, They called any theory that the Earth was not the Center of the Universe misinformation. Does this sound familiar today? People laughed and mocked people like Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Purbach as crack-pots, conspiracy theorists, nut-jobs and they were suppressed and even imprisoned for their radical thoughts and observations. Again it sounds like today in so many ways. In any event this is a good one to ponder and see even if a bad idea ...
Seemingly chaotic systems like the weather and the financial markets are governed by the laws of chaos theory.
We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
You may have heard the term about chaos theory as a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil,...
I for one have lost trust in Medical Doctors due to COVID and reflection that they seem to push pills for everything and untested so called vaccines that is using a unproven technology because the Government and the Medical Boards of the State told them to. There are a very few exceptions. Thus they do not address the key problem just prescribe more and more pills to keep you alive an sick longer for them and Big Phama to profit from you. Will AI do any better? Well that depends on what was used for the training of AI. If it also pushes pills and vaccines without question then you have the same problems noted above. However, if the AI Training includes all possible forms of treatment and they zero in on the right issues for the true problem then there is possibilities they would be way better than most of the current Medical Doctors today.
The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
