"When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointment at how much you can't do with that robot," he says.
Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks — but it turns out that just moving them through space without colliding with objects is more difficult than it sounds.
Fortunately, Konidaris is hopeful that future roboticists will have a more exciting start in the field. That's because roughly four years ago, he co-founded Realtime Robotics, a startup that's solving the "motion planning problem" for robots.
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Yale group explores human-robot interactions
Vázquez's past research had shown that it is better for robots to shut down for a few seconds than to react emotionally, as this increased the perception of robot mistreatment by human bystanders. Thus, her team devised a different approach, utilizing a separate robot that motivated human bystanders to intervene by showing emotions humans may empathize with or recognize.
"As a roboticist, I spend a lot of time making robots that hopefully, someday, will be able to help people in a variety of ways," Vázquez said. "But if people act adversarially towards these robots, they won't be able to help them as originally intended."
Research: More Restaurants Will Employ Robots to Offset Rising Labor Costs |
"There was a high level of resignation about the inevitability of QSRs incorporating robots during our group interviews," said Zemke, who collaborated on the study with several faculty from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "This finding is similar to the acceptability of routine societal change. Participants felt that the incorporation of robotic technology is a question of when , rather than a question of if ."
"And, imagine telling your problems to a robot instead of a human," she said. "It changes the dynamic of bartending dramatically when you add in mechanism with artificial intelligence and not common sense."
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company's next robots | VentureBeat
Founded in 1992, Boston Dynamics is arguably the best-known robot company around, in part because its demonstration videos tend to go viral. Now it is attempting to transform from an R&D company to a robotics business, with an eye on profitability for the first time.
When we interviewed Boston Dynamics founder and former CEO Marc Raibert in November 2019, we discussed the company's customers, potential applications, AI, simulation, and those viral videos . But it turns out Raibert was transitioning out of the CEO role at the time — current CEO Robert Playter told us in an interview this month that he took the helm in November.
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"Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake," Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted back in 2018 amid electric vehicle manufacturing struggles. "Humans are underrated."
Amazon , for all it advances in automation with warehouse machines like Kiva robots, still can't find a robot that can pick a product with as much success as a human.
Fears about the era of automation displacing human labor can seem old already, but the failures of automation are nothing new. Long before Tesla's attempt to "hyper-automate" Model 3 production at its Fremont, California, auto plant revealed how robots still struggle to deal with inconsistencies in assembly tasks — and that human worker flexibility remains a critical step in manufacturing — GM failed spectacularly with robotic manufacturing as far back as the 1980s.
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Robots are being deployed to clean plane cabins during the pandemic - Mirror Online
The airline shared a video of one of its deep-cleaning robots, named the NovaRover, as it made its way down the aisle of one of the company's aircrafts, disinfecting the cabin as it went.
An accompanying caption explained: "Meet our friendly new deep-cleaning robot, NovaRover! It's working hard to keep our planes clean with an antimicrobial spray, which forms a long-lasting protective barrier on aircraft surfaces."
The NovaRover works by spraying a super fine mist which can coat all surfaces within a 12-foot radius, all in one spray.
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