Given COVID 2019 situation and beyond, we are going to see pervasive robotics devices in many applications. In health care situations, we need robots that can insulate health workers from the patients. Needs for the telepresence robots in education and agriculture have similar strong motivations. However, these robots need to work along with humans. They must understand humans through interfaces such as voice, gesture, BCI, and haptics. These robots in some situations must learn to express human emotions as well. Such collaborative robots with humans in the loop have a distinct advantage that robots can take guidance from humans in complex and unknown situations. With human-in-the-loop, we do not have to build fully autonomous systems, and hence the effective cost of these devices will drastically come down. Simultaneously these devices can behave even smarter as they would embody human cognition.

The UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are commonly referred to as drones, are simply flying robots that can be controlled remotely and autonomously. Initially, drones were developed for the military mission but over time many business and government organizations have taken interest in drone applications and find these technologies effective in their respective areas due to low operational cost, timesaving, and reliable data collection. In general, drones/ UAVs have a variety of applications in agriculture, military and defense, commercial, oil and gas, and power and utility sectors. Successful integration of Drone in our social and industrial processes still requires deeper research to bring desired agility, stability, and reliability to Drone technology in terms of its hardware and software.