The automation was always among one of the main directions of civilizational development of humanity. Nowadays great infrastructural projects and industrial facilities are carried out without man’s help. It seems, that the day, when man’s economy will be transformed to robots’ economy, is not far. And cryptocurrency together with distributed database storage technologies will actively contribute in this process.
Robots’ economy or robonomics is a type of economic relations when the subjective and objective connections appears between specially programmed machines. Generally speaking, there is nothing revolutionary about it. Several lines of simple code can be enough for making a deal. The development of distributed registry technologies for database storage only simplify this task.
Automation itself is not new, but it sometimes can not functionate clearly if during production or other cycle there was a necessity to purchase something, or when any kind of exchange relationships interfere into the cycle. And for this blockchain and cryptocurrency become irreplaceable.
Robots with preinstalled software without man’s participation, having connection to the world wide web and thanks to blockchain technology can intercommunicate, provide and pay for service, exchange information, and be a full subject of robonomics. This approach can be useful almost anywhere, up to futuristic autonomous taxis under autopilot control. Just imagine, the robot will be able to pay for travel on toll roads, purchase electricity or fuel at gas stations. And all this in automatic mode.
Another application of technology to note is logistics. Now in the world there are quite a lot of experiments on the delivery of goods by drones, but the use of high tech robots as couriers, seems to be even more perspective, because of the possibility of more interaction during the relationship “seller — robot — customer” and also “robot-robot” relationships.
There are already successful results in the field of robonomics. So, specialists of the project 482.solution implemented a model of relationship between two robots using blockchain technology. the Wi-Fi microcontroller ESP32, which contains an Ethereum account with a public and private key, carries out the technical part of the process, , thanks to it robots are able to confirm transactions, accept payments and pay in cryptocurrency. Project 482.solution is a perfect example of the fact that a man is not an essential part of any effective economic relations. Moreover, well equipped robots with a certain set of sensors and having special software are likely to cope with the tasks much better and for longer time than humans.
