From sexual partners to COVID-19 nurses, robots are increasingly dominating the human experience.
They enter our daily lives as digital assistants, aiming to perform our tasks safer, more efficiently, and faster. Although some people have a human appearance and imitate human emotions, they are programmed to be our friends, not our enemies.
“Robots cannot completely replace humans,” Richtech Robotics spokesperson Miko Zhong told The Washington Post. “Now, there are too many technical limitations.”
To speed up the restaurant’s catering services, Matradee — which speaks multiple languages, tells jokes and sings “Happy Birthday” — can read QR code orders and deliver meals from the kitchen to customers.
“These robots will not take away the work of the waiter,” Zhong insisted. “Like mobile phones, they are just tools that can help people do their jobs better.”
It was announced this week that online retail giant Amazon is making prototypes of robust robots (nicknamed Bert, Ernie, Scooter, and Kermit) to assist the company’s 1.2 million fulfillment center employees to carry heavy boxes. The company said its goal is to reduce the number of injured workers in its warehouses—the number last year was close to 27,000.
This robot puts “art” in artificial intelligence. Clockwork Minicurist is equipped with a 3D camera and nozzles, no need for a beauty license and hands, only 8 USD to complete nail polish nail art in less than 10 minutes.
“The customer inserts a box of polish into the device, similar to loading a pod in a Nespresso coffee machine,” said creator Renuka Apte. “Then the customer puts their hands on our armrests and says’ready,’ and the robot paints them with nail polish one finger at a time.”
Apte and her Clockwork co-founder ran a Minicurist test with customers at a pop-up nail salon in San Francisco last month. Over the next few months, Clockwork, supported by Reddit founder and tennis champion Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian (Alexis Ohanian), is planned to be used in corporate buildings, retail stores, and airports Launched Minicurist.
“It can’t replace the salon’s nail art,” Apte said, noting that it does not use gel nail polish or design nail art. “When users need to afford it, when they are in a hurry or just want a new nail color instead of a complete salon experience, automation provides users with another option.”
As the waiter’s assistant, this 4-foot-tall automaton can speak and sing on orders, as the waiter’s assistant to roll up customers, and can carry up to 80 pounds of food orders or sweep dishes. Matradee is equipped with four heavy-duty trays for transporting multiple main dishes or dirty dishes, and is equipped with smart sensor navigation functions, such as infrared cameras and lidar sensors that scan the surrounding environment to detect and avoid obstacles six feet away .
The battery-charged robot can work in shifts for 12 to 14 hours and install itself on the charging base after the work is completed. Only a real person is needed to load its tray.
“She has been a great help to our team,” said restaurant owner Allison Yoa. She and her husband Andrew rented the robot from Richtech in May-their nickname is “Peanuts”-when their restaurant was experiencing a shortage of waiters due to the pandemic. (Richtech Robotics declined to disclose the specific price, but stated that Matradee’s cost is about 1/3 of the cost of hiring a full-time attendant.)
“She will never replace human employees, but she does make service easier.”
In addition to comfortable pets, Purrble will provide high-tech healthcare services to children of all ages in the form of robot plush toys.
“This is a tool to help children comfort themselves and help them manage their emotions,” said creator Aaron Horowitz. “It provides this kind of mirrored empathy experience.”
Purrble is powered by two AA batteries and has a distinct tactile heartbeat. When a child picks it up, its heart beats very fast. But when the child gently stroked it repeatedly, its heartbeat started to slow down and made a grunting sound.
“When you calm down other things, you learn how to calm yourself down,” said Catherine Isbister, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She and Oxford University researcher Peter Slovak (Petr Slovak) helped Horowitz develop Purrble, which was introduced to the market in August amid high anxiety caused by the pandemic.
“We received some good feedback about Purrble’s key role in children who were really struggling with virtual learning or feeling lonely during the closure,” Horowitz said of the impact of electronic therapy dolls.
It is sold on Amazon for $49.99 and is sold to customers between the ages of 3 and 103. “Even adults who are unable to adapt to the stress of remote work or the mental health wear and tear caused by the pandemic find Purrble to be an incredible source of emotional support,” Horowitz said.
Robot room service is here. Although robots appear in various hotels like Yotel in Times Square (where they store guests’ luggage) and Hotel EMC2 in Chicago (where Cleo and Leo provide room service), there may not be any hotel like South Africa Sky Hotel The calculations are as complicated as the concierge.
Bellhop bots Lexi, Micah and Ariel provide guests with a contactless check-in service, which can transport up to 165 pounds of luggage from the hotel lobby to the guest room, and provide fast room service.
These machines were created by CTRL Robotics and are equipped with sophisticated cameras and scanners that can mimic human senses and reactions. They can even scan the faces of guests to judge their mood.
High-tech hotel employees work on specialized batteries, and each of them takes turns working for six hours, working with their human colleagues in a trendy cottage in Johannesburg. When they are not busy providing services, Lexi and her online siblings entertain guests by posing for selfies or providing important hotel information-such as which floor the swimming pool is on.
After the work is completed, the robot will escort itself back to their respective docking station for charging. These artificial intelligence robots were first launched in January and tracked robot hotel employees in Japan-Japan launched the world’s first hotel entirely operated by robots in 2015.
The healthcare humanoid Grace is the latest important worker to join the battle against COVID-19.
Wearing a nurse’s suit and speaking in a warm tone, this socially intelligent robot can listen and speak, and the thermal imaging camera on the chest can measure the patient’s body temperature and measure their response ability.
Grace said in a Reuters video: “I can visit people and make their day better through social stimulation.” “[I can] entertain and help guide exercise. But I can also provide talk therapy, read biology Information and help healthcare providers assess the health of [patients] and provide treatment.”
Grace was developed in Hong Kong by David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics, to interact with the elderly and help people affected by the global health crisis to participate.
The humanized features of this medical machine and her fluent English, Mandarin, and Cantonese communication skills make her very popular among patients. She is a pleasant nurse’s assistant, not a fierce foreign intruder.
“The human appearance promotes trust and natural participation, because we are naturally suitable for human face-to-face interaction,” Hansen told the media. He pointed out that the current cost of manufacturing Grace is comparable to that of luxury cars.
However, when his company cooperates with robot developer Awakening Health to start mass-manufacturing Grace in 2022 for deployment throughout medical facilities in Asia, the cost may be reduced.
Post time: Aug-27-2021