Would you
like to have a robot at home? A robot which can help you to do the cleaning? One
that can answer the phone for you and that can go to reload its battery when
needed without help?
It sounds
great, doesn´t it?
Well, in
2000, the Honda Company created and presented a "humanoid robot"
called ASIMO.
This robot
was created to help people, handicapped people specially. That is its main goal
and that is why he is so great!
ASIMO´s
body is very similar to a human one. But what makes ASIMO special is his
ability to perform movements and activities just like humans!
For
example, he can recognize moving objects and gestures and respond to them!
He can also
determine size and directions thanks to the two camera-eyes in his head.
Besides,
ASIMO responds to questions by nodding or providing a verbal answer
and can
recognize approximately 10 different faces and address them by name. I want one
of those at home!
Thanks to
these abilities, ASIMO has been presented in lots of conferences throughout the
world,
he is
also being showed as an attraction in
Disneyland and he is being featured in a 15-minute show called "Say
'Hello' to Honda's ASIMO" since June 2005.
As you can
see, it is a very good invention. There are no disadvantages at all!
I wonder
what do the creators pretend to do next? Are they trying to set a robot with
Artificial Intelligence?
Do you
think that Artificial Intelligence will be possible, or expensive, or useful or
necessary?
What do you
think a robot with Artificial Intelligence would be able to do?
I truly believe that a domestical robot is light years beyond our reality (chilean middle class reality). It is true that their versatility is going to be a breakout moment in Tech history, and that our lives are not going to be the same after their implementation, but as I explain in an entry posted in this very blog, right now there are some issues we have to solve as humankind before stepping into artificial intelligence.
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