The first! Sophia gets human citizenship! What do you know about robots?

Sophia, a “female” humanoid robot, was granted Saudi citizenship at a sovereign Investment conference in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first robot in world history to be granted national status. Designed and built by Hong Kong-based technology company Hanson Robotics, Sophia uses artificial intelligence and Google’s voice recognition technology to simulate more than 62 facial expressions, making it the “most human-like robot”.

Sophia is no stranger to AI watchers. After appearing in wang Lee Hom’s new album “A.I. Love” and criticizing Tesla CEO Elon Musk who has been calling ARTIFICIAL intelligence a threat on the Internet, He has been granted Saudi citizenship.

Sophia attracted the attention of the whole people, but also turned people’s attention to the robot. What else are robots doing? How much more do we not know?

Classification of robots

A robot is a mechanical device that can perform its work automatically. In simple terms, with sensors, intelligent control system, drive system and other three elements of the machine is a robot. However, with the development of science and technology, especially the emergence of artificial intelligence, even if there is no drive system, some can also be driven by an independent intelligent control system to access various objects or humans in the real world through the Internet, they will also be called robots. Hence the concept of virtual robots.

Virtual robot is the inevitable trend of computer development. From the early days of DOS, when you typed code to give commands, to Windows, where you clicked a mouse, to IOS and Android, where you swiped and clicked directly, it’s easy to infer that the next inevitable trend is to talk directly to a computer in a human language. The virtual robot is the only way to achieve all this.

Virtual robot is the counterpart of physical robot. The popular humanoid robot and industrial robot in the past all need an entity, such as foxconn’s mechanical arm. Virtual robots, however, do not need to have such a body, such as the ones mentioned below.

Virtual robot representative

Chatbot

Apple’s Siri is probably the most familiar chatbot, but today’s example is the little I robot, which predates Apple’s Siri by about six years.

Xiaoi, the product of Zhizhen Intelligence, is a pioneer of chatbots. As early as 2003, the founder was keenly aware of the development trend of “intelligent voice interaction”, and quickly shifted its focus to virtual intelligent robots, and launched the Little I robot in January 2004.

Small I robot is the fourth generation of human-computer interaction, through natural language, computer equipment through vision, sound, natural dialogue with people, and appropriate feedback, has been widely used in the intelligent customer service market.

Information robot

Infobot is another kind of virtual robot. Although it is not as well known as chatbot, it will affect our life in the near future.

Giiso is the first robot company committed to expanding the field of intelligent information robot in China, and in 2014, developed the first information robot in China — Giiso information robot. Giiso information robot integrates two core technologies of intelligent semantics and knowledge atlas, which can be widely used in the field of news media services and intelligence collection and tracking, providing users with intelligent recommendation, intelligent editing, intelligent auditing, intelligent tracking, and intelligent writing services.

The appearance of Giiso information robot will rewrite the traditional way of working in the media industry, it can realize the full automatic intelligent collection and editing of information content, thus improving the efficiency of information collection, processing, analysis and processing. On this basis, it can also realize the ability of self-sustaining evolution of intelligence through machine learning. At present, many authoritative media have established cooperative relations with Zhisou.

Financial robot

When it comes to managing your money with a robot, you might imagine a robot in a suit and tie sitting behind the counter smiling at you and saying, “Hello! How can I help you?” However, robo-money management is not a physical robot.

Financial robots are also known as “intelligent investment”. It is a virtual robot based on customers’ own financial needs, through algorithms and products to complete the financial advisory services previously provided by manual. Is more specific point, through the network platform, with the aid of computer model and algorithm, provide for the customer portfolio advice, service management, dynamic balance, compared with the traditional financial management service, hold a threshold of millions of dollars in assets and high management cost, smart financial management has many characteristics, such as low threshold, easy to operate and intelligent.

Intelligent investment is still in the embryonic stage of exploration in China, but referring to the existing experience, it is likely to appear explosive growth in a short period of time, become a sharp tool for differentiated competition in the homogeneous market of Internet financial enterprises, and is also expected to become the entrance of traditional wealth management institutions to intervene in the field of Internet finance.

This is a time when anything is possible, and maybe the next generation of robots will cover a wider range of concepts. Don’t let old ideas limit your imagination!