Have you ever imagined that cooking, making tea and even communication are done by robots, this year's Winter Olympics, such "unmanned" scene.
When athletes from all countries stay in the Winter Olympic Village, they find that many services are done by all kinds of robots and AI, without masks, there will be reminders of epidemic prevention robots, when dining food "from the sky", some foreign media described the Winter Olympics as a science fiction movie. The "black technology" has also become a social favorite and is rapidly becoming popular.
One of the main themes of this year's Winter Olympics is "Winter Olympics with Technology", which also highlights the rapid development of the "unmanned economy". The unmanned economy has many forms of expression, supported by digital technology development, in the Winter Olympics is concentrated in the service robot and AI virtual services and other aspects.
These "black technology" out of the circle, but also triggered people to think about the "unmanned economy", there is no industrial support behind? When will the real large-scale commercial landing be? What industries are the robots going to change in the future?
"Alternative star"
In a video that has gone viral on social media platforms, a robot reminds athletes who are not wearing masks that "Please wear a medical mask". The robot in the video is the inspection and prevention robot of the Winter Olympic Games, named "Dumb Little Treasure".
Recently there are a lot of similar "fantasy" video on social media attention, these scenes are happening in the Winter Olympics.
In addition to the hot sports stars such as Gu Ailing and Su Yiming, there are also "alternative stars" in the Winter Olympics: skiing robots, catering robots, epidemic prevention robots and delivery robots. According to public information, there are hundreds of robots on duty at the Winter Olympics. In addition, there are also AI coaches, AI judges and virtual people and many other AI technology debut.
The six-legged ski robot developed by the team of Shanghai Jiaotong University has become popular on the Internet before the Winter Olympics. The robot has already completed primary and intermediate trails as well as skiing experiments with people, passing tests on various aspects such as stability control, intelligent perception and planning and decision-making. The robot uses double-board skiing, imitating the human skiing posture, and also realizes functions such as racing, turning and avoiding obstacles. It is reported that this robot is developed to carry out patrols and perform rescues in the mountains and snow and ice.
Ji Si Liang, director of the Beijing Big Data Association, told China Newsweek that the various robots at the Winter Olympics are getting attention because athletes from around the world are gathered here, and communication and interaction with the robots requires high technology and fast response capabilities, such as the ability to communicate in various languages. At the same time, robots show the essence of the extension of the human brain, robots need to do the first step of cognition, the second step to be able to learn intelligently.
So how many steps does it take to get a robot to make a cup of tea? In the Winter Olympics, "Leopard White" throwing tea, water, soup, a set of flowing tea making operation, attracted the attention of many foreign friends.
This tea making robot from Beijing Orion Star Technology Co., Ltd, the design, manufacturing and assembly of this product are completed in Jingdezhen, the most core capabilities are based on the robot previously more than 3000 hours of AI learning, 3000 hours of dual-arm adjustment and high-intensity visual training.
A robot that wants to serve the Olympics is not an easy task and needs to go through layers of selection. Three years ago, the organizing committee of the Winter Olympics began an extra-long cycle of evaluation of all kinds of participating robots, and five robots from Orion were selected, covering areas such as hospitality, translation and delivery.
Ji Si Liang believes that such products as tea-making robots are a little more difficult to develop than other robots, one is to identify obstacles, which requires deep learning, and the other is to have enough flexible hardware, which is not less demanding.
The AI solves the problem of human communication and the basic model, such as automatic translation to achieve barrier-free communication among athletes from different countries, as well as to assist judges in the competition for more accurate scoring.
These "unmanned" configurations, in the view of Yuan Bo, a senior communications engineer, have the potential to catalyze the commercialization of service robots and AI on the one hand, and to demonstrate China's technological strength on the other.
