10 Incredible Inventions Which Could Change The Future Of The Planet

10. Military Robots

Sometimes a movie comes along which puts the wrong kind of idea in people's heads - as classic as The Terminator is, it's hard not to imagine some talented engineer working for the military thinking that an army of robots is a good idea. Regardless of the dystopian future connotations associated with military robots, a number of militaries around the world have been developing them for some time. In the US it is Boston Dynamics who are leading the charge, with both bipedal and quadrupedal robots in the late testing stages. With Boston Dynamics being owned by Google, control of the development of military robots and the internet makes them about as close to a real life Skynet as you can get. The worst case scenario for the development of military robots - and one which is feared by some experts in the field - is the Singularity; the point at which machines become self-sufficient (and presumably transform the planet along the lines of the Matrix). The best case scenario might be that they are repurposed for humanitarian purposes rather than killing people.