The US military has developed a warship firefighting robot with highly artificial intelligence. Equipped with sensors and infrared cameras, it can judge and understand the correct instructions based on human gestures even when smoke and flames are in the air.
The U.S. military noted that the robots could prevent crews from being re-injured while repairing ships that have been hit in the past with high temperatures and toxic fumes. The purpose of development is not to reduce the number of men on board, but to reduce the number of casualties among our compatriots.
Back in Asia, Japan is arguably the world’s most aggressive robot country. The most famous of these is The ASIMO robot, developed by Honda in 2000. Standing around 130cm tall and weighing around 54kg, he can walk, run, climb stairs and talk. He can also walk around a room, pick up cups and plates, respond to simple commands, remember faces and even many words and speak different languages.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
For their part, Japanese industry is more concerned with the practical role of robots than with the philosophical issues between humans and robots. In particular, Japan has entered an aging society, and robots to assist the elderly are in the forefront of development.
Including Panasonic, Toyota, Honda?? Big Japanese companies are developing health care robots. Toyota, for example, launched four robots in November last year to help people with disabilities walk, or help people with difficulty getting up and down to get in and out of bed and go to the toilet. The robots will be tested in medical facilities this year and will be put into practical use in 2013. Panasonic developed a hair washing robot and has been testing it in places such as barbershops since April. Panasonic has also developed a wheelchair-bed machine that, in addition to sleeping in the wheelchair, automatically measures blood pressure and temperature.
Honda also announced that it has offered a trial walking aid for the elderly to the National Medical Research Center for Longevity in Japan. The battery-powered device, which is rolled around the waist and attached to the top of a stand that extends above the knee, senses the movement of the user’s legs and helps elderly people with weak legs walk.
Create new life apps
For modern people, jobs that are too dirty, too tired, too dangerous, too delicate, too heavy or too repetitive and boring are often expected to be replaced by robots. While many industrial robots are being used on the assembly lines of manufacturing plants, their efficiency and speed are improving, other diverse applications, such as agriculture, education, entertainment and health care, are also making impressive progress around the world.
At this point, Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, once pointed out that the development of the robot industry is just like the rise of the PC industry 30 years ago. He boldly predicted that every household would have a robot in the future, just as there are computers in the home now.
Is Taiwan ready for the next generation of technological revolution coming into our lives? Engineering institute leader by mechanical yi-jong lo from Taiwan manufacturer supply chain analysis, Taiwan’s electronic technology has rich technology, electrical, mechanical, information, communication, electronics, energy, materials and creative content, and the automatic production and mechanical equipment, which has a complete industrial groups, “actually machine factory is standing in the new century the beginning of the industrial revolution.”
The most international scale of the new domestic demand industry
Big Luo Renquan intelligent robot and automation international research center, said professor than a lot of industry at the edge of the Maori miho bao four struggle, “the industrial robot and automation industry is a highly integrated ICT industry, industry high affinity, high lever effect, industry wide application field, from manufacturing, auto industry, into the future of health care industry, entertainment, education, industry, etc., It is not only an important foundation for future industries, but also a locomotive for other industries. Google Taiwan managing Director Chien Lifeng is also optimistic about the development of robot industry in Taiwan, he said That Taiwan’s manufacturing strength is deep, and Taiwan business bases around the world, but the future is indeed a big challenge, the demand for robots is bound to increase, “this is the most international scale of domestic demand industry!”
At present, some Taiwan factories concentrate on the field of industrial robots, while others choose to enter the general consumer market. The reason for the former is that industrial robots are cost-effective, flexible and fast, with applications ranging from material handling to assembly and packaging. Typically, these companies manufacture robotic equipment to strengthen their own production lines and ship it to other domestic and international companies that need automation.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
In addition, in order to meet the huge demand of robots in different industries, how to customize the management needs the cooperation of software and information personnel. For example, develop or maintain the robot’s internal software architecture, artificial intelligence algorithms, human-machine interface communication, assist mechanical hardware manufacturers in assembly and back-end testing, and solve the problems after the actual import.
Most of the current use of robots is to assist humans, but the biggest challenge in the future is how to add more ARTIFICIAL intelligence. In other words, they should be able to accumulate experience of failure, learn forward, reason and correct themselves, and even detect and judge abnormal conditions at work and respond immediately or send messages to humans.
Could robots be smarter than humans and control them? This is a question that many science films and the scientific community constantly debate. Rather than waiting for robots to surpass us in intelligence and computing power, we should try to strengthen ourselves so that we can gradually become superhumans.