Robotics for Human Augmentation | Science | AAAS
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Fundamental advances in robotics will extend human sensory experience, physicality, and cognition to an unprecedented level. Aided by augmentation technology, the future human will be stronger, faster, less prone to injury, and more productive. Future technologies will not only compensate for human disability but will drive human capacities beyond innate physiological levels, enabling humans to perform a diverse set of tasks with both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic extended bodies. For example, the field of robotics has already advanced wearable supernumary limbs that interface mechanically with the body, giving a person additional limbs to extend physicality beyond traditional limits (Parietti and Asada, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016). Augmentative technologies will have a transformative influence on broad social, political, and economic spheres, affecting the future of sport, labor productivity, human longevity, and disability.