Tokyo Olympics: Cleaner, Greener & Tech-Rich

Faster. Higher. Stronger. Together. With these golden lines, we witnessed the start of the first Olympics that is getting organized in an odd year, credits to which goes to COVID-19. There’s a lot of expectations attached to the Tokyo Olympics. But, here, Exhibit has come to discuss how technology is influencing this entire Olympics that is going on in the Land of the Rising Sun. Through this article, you will come to know in what domain technology is making its space in the Tokyo Olympics. 

Clean Energy Enlightens

After signing the Paris Climate Agreement in the year 2015, many were feeling it as a utopian thought that clean energy can make a huge proportion that too in near times. But, you need to give credit to the Japanese, who have ensured that the Olympics Village in Tokyo gets electricity with the use of solar and wind energy. It means that every stadium is getting whatever power is from the wind that is blowing in the region, in addition to the Sun rays that show the first drop in the country every morning.  

Winners Get Old Phones

What? And, will the winners happily accept it? That’s not worth considering the amount of effort they are pouring into every single match to come into the top three positions. Well, all you need is a bit of patience. For the Tokyo Olympics, this time, the medals have been formed by using the old phones. Experts have extracted the essential elements and metals like gold, silver, and copper from old cellular devices to transform them into medals. Through these devices, more than 5000 medals have been created. It depicts the environmental consciousness developed in recent times. 

Reduce Reuse & Recycle

The Tokyo Olympics will surely create a legendary benchmark for future generations through which they can learn how to organize events by maintaining sustainable development and judicious use of resources. It’s known for sure that this gala of games will demand a huge number of sporting equipment and other essential gadgets. And, almost 99% of these goods have been made by recycling and reusing.  

Driverless Taxis Take Me to the Stadium

Yeah, this will be another technical antique thing present during this Olympics. Many driverless taxis are running at present on the roads of Tokyo that can take you directly to the stadium. All you need is your smartphone, through which you will scan the code present on the doors of these taxis that will open the gate for you and let you get inside.

Hello, Let Me Translate it for You

Many robots installed in the Olympics village will assist in many things like translating the Japanese language into the language that you understand. If you want to bring your grandfather and grandmother to the stadium, who will bring baggage with them, these robots will help them take these bags. 

Ohh Drone You Beauty

If you remove the word drone from the heading, you must have heard such statements many times during a cricket match commentary. But this, commentators, will attach such statements with drones. Why? Check the opening ceremony again and see what a bunch of 1800 drones did during the inauguration program. You will surely appreciate it. 

Final Word

Technology has formed a perfect blend with the Tokyo Olympics and has clearly indicated what it can do when there is a good intention to serve the society without compromising with sustainable development and mitigating climate change. 

This is how robotics will influence future medicine.

It is no secret that robots are being extensively researched upon and their influence in our daily life is increasing considerably. What were earlier mere objects of humour and ridicule are now full-fledged artificially intelligent entities. While robotics is a vast subject, its knowledge is applied across various other branches of science.

Among those branches is medicine. It has seen the increased involvement of robotics both on the macro and micro scale. While there are sophisticated machines that perform complex surgeries without mistakes, there are also nanorobots that can be embedded in a body for certain enhancement. While that sounds a little fantasy-like, there is no denying that robotics is fast becoming an integral part of medicine.

As mentioned earlier, micro- and nanorobots are being developed to be used as a faster treatment method. As per sciencemag, Micro- and nanorobots are small, motile devices that convert chemical or/and physical energy into mechanical actuation and have the potential to enable minimally invasive treatment and targeted drug/cell delivery with high precision. For active drug delivery strategies, these machines can locally concentrate therapeutic payload around pathological sites to reduce the dose of administrated drugs and their systemic side effects. Simply put, they intelligently target the affected area and deliver the dose without side effects.

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Another kind of robots used in medicine are called ‘telepresence’ robots. These robots emulate the presence of a doctor or surgeon, who is on call via the robot. He can the remotely answer questions and help share his knowledge and experience with others. There are also surgical robots that can be controlled remotely via a console to help the surgeon perform even better.

Prosthesis also has a bright future in robotics. Amputees were earlier restricted to wearing fake replicas or look-alike of their limbs. However, modern medicine has allowed robotic prosthetic to be grafted to amputees, helping them to not only regain their lost abilities but enhance them considerably.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) states that there are also rehabilitation robots. These robots can be programmed to adapt to the condition of each patient as they recover from strokes, traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries, or neurobehavioral or neuromuscular diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Robotics is an ever-evolving subject and it is surely going to improve the medicinal scenario significantly. It remains to be seen if robotics can be (or will be) used to enhance physical capabilities or add prosthetic limbs to the natural ones. If that day comes, it will mark the beginning of Superheroes on this planet! Come to think of it, somebody can create an exosuit like Doctor Octopus, Black Panther or even Mysterio! The possibilities of human enhancement with the help of robotics is practically endless.

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