Here is a list of some notable robots and where they appear to be headed. There have been a lot of new creations in the robotics field, each with their own blend of talents and faults.
Elon Musk revealed last week during Tesla’s AI day that his next creation will be “friendly” Tesla robots that can perform dangerous, repetitive, and boring jobs such as fetching tools for repairs or getting groceries.
Musk offers his take on the relationship between Tesla and robotics in his presentation. “Tesla is probably the biggest robotics company because our cars are semi-aware, self-driving vehicles,” he says. It “is logical,” he adds, to combine the cars’ self-driving features and built-in neural networks that perceive and navigate the world around them with a humanoid robot form.
Elon Musk assures the audience that the robot will be one that humans may outrun and overpower (if required). Despite this robotic creation’s large size, it will allegedly weigh just 125 pounds and stand 5’8″. It will also be able to lift up to 45 pounds, lift up to 150 pounds, and move at a maximum speed of 5 mph. Musk predicts that the robot will come to life sometime in 2019, and the company is currently looking for team members.
Musk’s assertion that he can build intelligent household robots is already being met with skepticism, as numerous firms have already tried to produce robots for simple labour, and as he severely underestimates the time and effort required to construct and test even the simplest of these machines.
Tesla vehicles are powered by a self-driving system, and this newly announced robot would supposedly be as well. Sadly, that system has recently been under federal investigation for crashing into emergency vehicles, dampening Musk’s hype.
Musk is known for being a showman, not a realist, so you shouldn’t expect him to deliver this promised product on time.
Many corporations and universities have been working on robots for human-supporting tasks, including monitoring health, rescuing people, and being a butler. Despite the fact that the robots portrayed in movies and TV are far removed from those that are currently feasible as a result of research, there is still a large gap. Musk is not the only one with such intentions.
Here is a list of some of the most prominent robots, and where they seem to be heading.
It makes up for lack of speed with balance and agility
The company Boston Dynamics, which specialises in humanoid robotics, has been experimenting with this technology for almost a decade. The Hyundai Motor Group acquired SoftBank’s Boston Dynamics in June. The group’s humanoid Atlas robots have been subject to a number of trials to determine their agility and locomotion in different environments. Atlas was introduced to the world in 2013. Recently, it has mastered parkour. At just over five feet tall, Atlas weighs 196 pounds, and can run up to 5.6 mph. However, these robots are still in the research phase and are not available for purchase. Spot, a dog-like robot from Boston Dynamics, can be purchased for $74,500, but it is still in the research phase.
Agility Robotics, Inc.
Agility Robotics is a corporation based in California that develops and sells robots for autonomous operation in a variety of environments. The collabotation in 2019 between Ford Motor and Agility Robotics produced a humanoid work bot known as Digit. Digit has working and adjustable arms and legs that help it move about, pick up items, and move them about. Ford is currently testing whether Digit, in conjunction with a self-driving vehicle, can collaborate to make deliveries. LiDAR and other sensors aid him to navigate.
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Pepper, a social humanoid robot developed by SoftBank in 2014, is one of the earliest examples. For $2,000, you could have purchased one of the first Pepper models. Pepper copies human upper-body movements and detects human emotions and non-verbal communication to create an illusion of understanding, or what some developers call artificial empathy. Despite visiting the Smithsonian and Buddhist temples, Pepper’s production was terminated this year, according to The Verge.
The company Hanson Robotics is dedicated to the construction of human-like robotic systems.
Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics created Sophia, an uncannily human-like robot, in 2016. David Hanson, the company’s founder, told Reuters in January that his firm would mass-produce four robot models this year, including Sophia. Hanson said these robots could be useful in healthcare, retail, and airline environments.
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There are various types of humanoid robots, and some are good at doing specific things, while others are important as proof-of-concepts. Altar, a Japanese neural network-run inflatable air dancer, provided an example of how it is difficult to teach robots to coordinate and move in harmony with humans.
Using an underwater robot named OceanOne, Stanford scientists were able to retrieve a vase from an underwater shipwreck, thus reducing the need for dangerous diving missions. Because this humanoid diver needs humans to control it virtually, it cannot be relied upon to do so. Samsung has been working on creating home robotic health aides. However, these robots, which monitor health, function more like a Roomba with a Life Alert button than a Big Hero 6 Baymax.
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