Writing manuscripts can host a humanoid robot into the media circle

Recently, the topic of robot heat up again, Japanese scientists introduced two female anchor robots, not only articulate broadcast news jerk, and the realistic appearance, it is almost difficult to distinguish between true and false. A few days after the anchor appeared, the Associated Press announced it was "hiring" robots journalists to write the manuscripts. Although they all wrote boring report manuscripts, their revolutionary significance was still shocking. Robots are more "humanized" both in appearance and function, attracting people's attention once again.

Writing manuscripts can host a humanoid robot into the media circle

The Associated Press announced last week that they would start using news writing software instead of people to automatically write news about the company's earnings. The Associated Press releases about 300 news stories about the company's earnings every quarter. It not only requires journalists to keep a close watch on the date of the earnings announcement, but also the content is dull and unpredictable. The report said that in just 30 seconds, an electronic computing control of the "magic pen Ma Liang" will be able to "save" an article published daily in major online media reports, this year is expected to send more than 1.5 million articles, Involved in sports competitions, the stock market, real estate prices, popular favored people.

In fact, as early as March of this year, the Los Angeles Times of the United States has tried to write a story about using the software to write a local earthquake. An article was released in only three minutes. The Associated Press promised that in the release of the most closely watched company earnings, will continue to use human handwriting. Explaining the meaning of machine-written reporting, the chief editor of the Associated Press said automation will liberate journalists who do not have to indulge in data and simple common sense and always hover at the lowest end of the industry chain.

Just a few days before the news of the robotic reporter came out, Japan's robot anchorwoman was also gorgeous, not only lifelike appearance, its humorous conversation and fluent language expression is even more "amazing." The two "anchormen" will communicate with others when their lips move with their eyes, their eyebrows will move, they will blink and look around. Kodomoroid, with its girl-like appearance, produces many different voices, such as low male voices and high-pitched female voices. She had a live demonstration of news broadcast of the earthquake and FBI assault and recite a tongue-twister for "Kung Fu," too. Otonaroid, another female adult robot, also demonstrated her unique skills. When asked to introduce her, Otonaroid not only got into stage fright but also misreads the lines. She said sorry to the scene, said "I am a little nervous," the subtle expression of people moving. Ishiguro, a Japanese scientist who made both robots, said the two robots were used to study how human beings interact with the robots, but many people say that the two machine anchors are a bit of a creepy one, from the sound to the body.

There are emotions like they have been "evolving" to humans

In April this year, the Global Mobile Internet Conference was held in Beijing. Shi Hehao, director of the Institute of Intelligent Robots at Osaka University in Japan, presented the latest achievement of Actroid-F. Her robot, which has been hailed as the "sexiest", has been able to work with humans communication.

In September last year, Actroid-F conducted experiments at the Art Institute of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. During the experiment, Actroid-F was able to engage in eye contact, simple movements and answer questions according to different contexts. At this conference, she has become more mature. Actroid-F looks extremely realistic in live demonstrations, completes nodding and blinking, and allows simple conversations and reactions. The Actroid-F robot also has a brother who can communicate with humans. At present, the pair of robots have been used in some Japanese hospitals to observe patients' reactions to them.

Humanoid robots may be best known as Aiko. Aiko is the dream project for Japanese inventor Le Trung. Aiko means "deeply loved" in Japanese, so the robot was initially designed to be a near-perfect female character. Since its first appearance in 2007, Aiko's appearance has also come closer and closer to reality as science and technology have progressed, even to the point of being real.

In addition, the "Japan Advanced Institute of Industrial Science and Technology" launched a robot called "HRP-4C" in 2009. The height of the HRP-4C is about 1.58 meters tall and about the same size as an average Japanese teen who weighs about 43 kilos wearing a silver and black spacesuit. The robot "HRP-4C" has a total of 30 motors to control limb movement, making expressions of joy, anger, sadness, pleasure and surprise. In addition, it is able to walk slowly, blink and say "Hello everyone" in a small female voice.

Japan's Softbank recently launched the world's first interactive robot "Pepper" (Pepper), scheduled to go on sale in 2015, the estimated price of 198,000 yen, mainly for the elderly care and companionship. "Pepper" with wheels instead of his feet exercise. At the same time, through the cloud computing to share data, learning different gestures, expressions and tone of dialogue with humans. Pepper can talk, sing, and dance. The reporter asks him a good deal in Japanese, and it turns around with big eyes and asks: "Is it a break today?" The reporter said "yes" and asked: "Then you are ready to buy or where to go?" "Pepper" Body language changes according to the dialogue, sometimes smiling, sometimes shy.

Researchers say that by giving the robots these subconscious responses, people are more receptive than just thinking of them as cold, soulless machines.

A layer of human skin they are the same in the "siege slightly"

If lifelike robots have a sense of fear in humans, then although some robots do not evolve into adult ones, their ability in different fields will make people feel a sense of oppression. As long as robots do the same as human beings even better than humans, it will naturally make people want to "stay away" psychology.

Such as this excellent "domestic service robot": the United States iRobot's robot wipe "Braava 380j", the price is about 2,000 yuan. There are two modes of Braava. One is to use water to wipe the wet floor of hard floor such as wood floor and tile, and the other is dry dry floor of dry floor. Wet wipe mode, you can mop the floor as a human mop before moving back and forth to wipe the floor. Pre-fill the sink with a special pad to keep the cloth moist even when the floor area needs to be wiped. Dry erase mode can be moved in the room a straight line to wipe the floor.

Braava uses various sensors built into the fuselage to detect and avoid obstructions, remembering where it was rubbed and moving to wipe the rest. In order to improve accuracy, the product is also equipped with a "navigation system", the use of infrared sensors at the top of the fuselage to identify the irradiation point, in order to grasp their relative position with the box.

The emergence of robot journalists and anchors will give media practitioners a sense of crisis; the excellent performance of such mopping robots also seems to bring about a revolution in employment for the domestic sector.

The master of ceremonies married the bride

May 2010, Japan married a couple, invited the robot to do the ceremonies chaired wedding: a robot named "love elf". "Love Elves" 1.5 meters tall, eyes sparkling, brushing plastic braids. According to Kokoro, the maker of the robot, robots dominate the wedding for the first time in the world.

Almost everyone stood up when the bride was wearing a white wedding dress and walked through the promenade, except for the wedding ceremonies, for "she" was fixed in her seat. In the wedding that day, "Love Elves" with a small voice said: "Please open the veil for the bride." When the bride and groom kiss in front of about 50 guests, Love Elves waving their hands. There is a black curtain not far from the robot, behind the curtain is a computer connected to the body of the robot, where people issue instructions through the computer.

Masochist robots apparently grabbed the ceremonies of human ceremonies, and because of its freshness and fun, under the same conditions, I believe robots will be more popular.

Security robot escort World Cup

In this World Cup in Brazil, there are 30 petty but "kung fu" mechanical warfare robots - PackBot participated in the security patrol and escort.

PackBot is a small portable robotic system that can be carried by a soldier in a backpack, so it is also known as a "backpack" robot. The robot has a very strong close-in cave, inside or sewer search operations capabilities. In the war on terror in Afghanistan, the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army first used PackBot to conduct cave search operations.

In response to possible bomb threats during the match, the Brazilian government reached a deal worth $ 7.2 million with iRobot, a maker of military robots PackBot, for the purchase of 30 of the world's most advanced explosion-proof robots for security during the World Cup. They were deployed to 12 cities where competitions were held, probing possible dangerous explosives and completing explosive ordnance disposal under police control.

"Unlucky Love" robot on the human bed

Love and sex are important distinguishing features of human beings from machines. However, the development of robots in recent years has given people an eye-opener, and they have completely become men's "third parties" with great agitation.

David Levy, a British expert in artificial intelligence, described the love and the humanity between humans and robots. According to his point of view, sex robots will appear widely, and after four or five decades human beings may fall in love with robots. The so-called erotic robot is actually an artificial intelligence robotic device, which can trigger the actual physical reaction through the brain or make people have a complete sensation in the brain.

Roxxxy is such a robot mate, she is very close to the design of real people, 1.7 meters tall, slim, with a selection of hairstyles and eye color, different models will have different functions, you can listen to your talk, talk to you Or caress you. After nearly 10 years of research and development, this robot first appeared in 2010. In fact, Roxxxy is more like a human body model. Although it has the same hobby as the owner, it can also be emotional and sometimes sleepy. Scientists say that Roxxxy offers more than just sexual experience - they are more like a real partner, they talk to people and create emotional connections.

"Strange Valley" phenomenon is too disturbing machine people

Now it's nothing new to develop people-like robots, especially Japanese and U.S. scientists. However, the robot should be somewhat like people, has been a controversial topic. Extremely obsessed with humanoid robot is called "strange valley" syndrome. "Strange Valley" comes from Japanese robot scientist Mori Masahiro "Strange Valley hypothesis." Hypotheses argue that in the interaction between human and non-human (such as robots), the degree of human preference for non-human is not proportional to the degree of non-human and non-human similarity. At first, the degree of preference does increase with the increase of the degree of similarity. However, when it reaches a certain level, the preference of people for it will drop sharply and even become disgusting.

Hansen, a U.S. scientist, said he is perfectly acceptable for the "Strange Valley" syndrome. He said that research and development of humanoid robot to bring him unlimited fun. Hansen frankly stated that his maddening for humanoid robots may make it hard for some scientists to understand. Because they are concerned that the robot looks so similar to human beings that it may pose a challenge to human dominance and fear its identity is robbed by robots.

Many scientists believe that robots do not have to be too human, because that would be disturbing. Functionally speaking, like a machine on the line, such as television sets, portable devices. However, Ishiguro said, "To create a humanoid robot is to explore the meaning of human beings and to reflect on what is emotion, what is awareness and what is thinking." Not only that, Ishiguro also "to blame," made a robot like myself, and now often sent to overseas to do science talks. "It's a lot of time and effort that saves me a lot of time and energy, as he says, with robots like me going to do business on my journey." "Technological advances mean robots that look and behave more like humans and also allow us to reflect on our values "Because seeing robots can talk like people do things, people will inevitably reflect on their own identity and positioning.

Let humans learn from robots

Japanese robot expert Ishiguro robot has been very persistent. He and his team have produced a great variety of robots, such as beautiful beauty robots, show-window robots, singer-robots that can be used in shop windows and singing songs, and are now said to have fans, storytelling robots, Sex robots to meet the wishes of the elderly to communicate, Ishiguro also based on the robot to further create a small neutral man-like body, smart phone built-in, Qualcomm 4G built-in mobile phone chips, the appearance of people. Ishiguro that the robot can replace the actor in the future, will not strike, will not be tired. He hopes robots will be closer to humans in the future. However, how to improve the combination with voice recognition, to have a logical dialogue with people, and how to increase the emotional performance of robots remains a challenge, but above all, people's imagination can not be replicated.

The "rebellious" worries bite?

The United States classic science fiction movie "Terminator" to show people: robots can save people, but also kill; robots can benefit humanity, but also to destroy the world. What is important is not what the robot chooses, but how the human beings behind the robot will choose. So far, all the robots that have been released are "good boys," and even battle robots are absolutely obliged to give orders to human beings. However, many scientists worry that with the leapfrogging of robots, will one day throw off the maverick? Worse, with the emotional robot, will not because of dissatisfaction with their own experience, or mistakes in the process, so as to human beings as their enemies? These concerns have become the classic bridge section of many robotics sci-fi movies. However, some scientists claim that the emotional machine can never appear from the mathematical deconstruction model that generates consciousness in the human brain. Because the computer can not handle the process of information integration that any human consciousness and emotion experience, that is, the robot can not have the ability of consciousness and feeling. Therefore, the robot is destined to be forever the "servant" of mankind, and will not turn over to revolt. Some experts say the battlefield robots, even if the future on a large scale on the battlefield robotics, but its operation will remain a people-centered information operations, command and soldiers of the main task is to command and combat soldiers should be natural Mode and minimal man-machine interaction to manipulate the unmanned combat system to complete combat missions. Therefore, in the future battlefield semi-autonomous control mode will be the mainstream of combat control of ground robots.

At present, the US ground-based robots generally realize the semi-autonomous control operation mode, which is aimed at reducing the human-computer interaction of the operators and ultimately realizing the fully autonomous combat mode of operation. However, experts believe that even if the fully-fledged combat mode desired by the U.S. military is fully met, ground robot operations can not be completely separated from human participation.