What do you think is a robot? "Robots are everywhere, in the construction industry, garages, aviation laboratories, automobile companies," Keay said. "The robots we are talking about today are much more complicated than the robots of the 1980s."
If I tell you that the ATM machines, GPS navigation, and Nest thermostats you usually use are actually robots, you probably won't admit it. Then the automatic sweeper should be considered a robot, right? Since the family has pets, it would not work without it, but those cash machines and GPS navigation, are they not considered robots?
Everyone always thinks that robots should grow up to be like C3PO in "Star Wars", with high IQ and humorous cells. Otherwise, at least they have to be like sweeping robots that can sweep and vacuum by themselves. Think about it this way, in fact, thermostats are no different from them. People can still control the environment; sweeping robots do not have the ability to automatically learn. Nest thermostats have. It can remember the user's schedule and temperature preferences, and automatically adjust the indoor temperature. . In terms of function, it is no different from C3PO going to the temperature regulator and then manually adjusting the button.
What is a robot?
The cars and airplanes that everyone drives every day are actually automated equipment, and they are also a type of robot in a broad sense. Andra Keay, the founder of Robot Launchpad and the general manager of Silicon Valley Robotics, believes, “But most people don’t think that way. In my opinion, the more excellent automatic equipment technology, the more “invisible”, and it breaks away from the “human” robots that ordinary people think. It should be in its proper form, but it has the inner nature of a robot. From this perspective, automatic sweepers and lawn mowers are all'invisible' robots."
In 2011, Keay moved to the United States from Australia, when she was learning about the behavior of various automatic devices in Australia. After hearing that it is difficult for robot startups to raise funds, she decided to go to the United States to find out. After arriving in Silicon Valley, Keay finally discovered that robot companies are actually rich. However, this robot is completely different from the three-headed six-arm robot that the public thinks. Going on.
Venture capitalist Dmitry Grishin said that once automated equipment is widely used in a particular job, people will not regard such things as robots. Dishwashers, ATM machines, and thermostats and automatic sprinklers are classified in people's minds.
“When we talk about robots, most people’s reactions are humanoid robots.” Grishin said, “What’s interesting is that most people don’t know what we call robots for. When the Dang robot really served humans, we immediately expelled it from the robot team (people don’t know what they should do to call them humans...). Have you ever seen someone use a vacuum cleaner as a robot? "
The future of robots
Grishin believes that this kind of non-human robot will gradually be transformed into a unified product, which is the same reason that the digital compass has been integrated into the mobile phone. Although companies like Unbounded Robotics, Keecker, and Knightscope have been working hard in this regard, it will not take a day or two to achieve such a transformation, and the current technical standards have not developed to such a high level.
On the other hand, this is also a commercial act, and robots have to pay a reasonable price for themselves. But it's better to specialize in one task than to do everything well.
Grishin said: "You want robots to solve and answer questions." Keay said: "The core question is, under what circumstances do we really call a computer-controlled automatic device a'robot'? It depends on us. What is the relationship with this automatic device? Only when it has social attributes, we can call it a "person", such as a robot butler."
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