Robots and men: why do we need the technology to make a bridge between us?
Debates Opinions Robotics Health home automation future INNOROBO pluslonguelavie ROBOLIFT seniorlab seniors
When you go into a lounge dedicated to robotics as was the case in Borodin, it is interesting to observe the shifts. And the most obvious gap is the one that separates the discourse of facts.
In the discourse of professionals in robotics, robots are already among us. During his introductory presentation, Bruno Bonn ell, chairman of the event, ingrain prospects, as if the organic growth of the market forecasts were assurance of a bright future finally, to justify all business models ... When Showroom, industry professionals were loudly making their hopes, one after another, demonstrating their marvelous achievements. Yet there were many who do not exposed very real prospects of markets ... The world of robotics seems populated by loving researchers R & D and a little dreamy entrepreneurs hoping to sell their robots because they are in tune with the times and it's cool to have one next to his computer or in a pool (yes, there are robots that swim). That is not enough. We know that there are some broken teeth.
toolbox
Image: The indispensable robotics toolbox in the aisles of Borodin, photographed by Russell Davies.
The success of the Rumba, the robotic vacuum cleaner sold over 6 million copies worldwide and been widely copied, and the presence of Colin Angle dapper CEO, came galvanize the troops in demonstrating the success of a highly functional robotics was fortunately there to remind that now robotics is first case of silver and adequacy of an offer to specific needs ...
The success of the robotic vacuum cleaner and some toys that move on their own and play some time our children seems the horizon through which the robot will penetrate our homes. From there to apply the surge of robotics in the field of entertainment and more health, there is not that many entrepreneurs considering lustfully. We are still far away.
For many experts, the aging of the population appears the horizon that will crystallize the golden age of domestic robotics. Despite the hopes raised by research in the field of service robotics adapted to health, we are far from the account. Even in Japan, a pioneer in this area, the results are well below expectations. Even the gentle and kind Parr therapeutic robot seal, would have sold a thousand units ... We too often think that in Asia the development of robotics is quite natural. However, Sang-Rok Oh, director of the Center for the Development of robotics learning of the Institute of Science and Technology of Korea, referring to the Korean educational plan in robotics, has nevertheless recalled that this development does not self-evident. Behind the images of language or gym teachers robots (video), controversies about educational benefits of technology are also available in Korea. "Young people need to adapt to the digital world and some parents ask the school proposes a new educational environment with innovative methods, but others think that children should learn in natural environments without computers or robots. "And the introduction of robots in kindergartens to accompany the awakening of the youngest, as we did it with computers a few years earlier, wake the same opposition. "The Korean society is very conservative, it is mostly very opposed to these new systems." further explained Sang-Rok [1].
Video: Robots teachers in Korea? Behind the image of Spinal of the Reuters report, perhaps more challenge as you think.
Why this failure? First, precisely because all these robots may not meet a specific need. Robots assistance for dependent elderly people, supposed to do everything, ultimately, can not do much. Often we are more playful than anything else in the ... A fun which is rarely offered at the price of fun.
Secondly and most importantly, because this is far from a walk as clear as they say so. In a living room, it is always interesting to look at what we can not see where what we want to do to show you. And when we look away from the scene where electronic puppets are agitated, what do we see? We see computers. You see people who repair packet son or outgoing engines disemboweled robots. We see complex programs that take place as the robots are agitated, but the screens are not turned to the audience. Then you are asked to admire the robots, other glances monitor via computer. The robot does agitated that when tapped the enter key and stops when the program was held. When we see demonstrators repeat voice commands for 10 minutes without the robot hears them, we realize how much the Holy Grail of autonomy is relative. In most cases, engineers are enthusiastic about the mechanical Leos, they fly ave a remote control or a program, fun all day trying to make them work, make them respond as they have to meet, operate as they should work ... Not sure it amuses the public or the elderly having to look into the bowels of their robots all day long. Robots programming will struggle to convince beyond a small circle of enlightened geeks.
The third reason I think is certainly looking into the uncanny valley, this strange valley inhabited by the people of scrap metal and engines. Who has not heard a robot trying to climb stair steps next to you, the strength of its tracks, will possibly not understand ... But the unbearable thunder that accompanies makes you quickly realize that you can not live forever with him. Nor would you live with a vacuum cleaner ... Many owners of Rumba certainly christened the name of a small - what they were already doing with some non-robotic objects indeed, but not necessarily with their vacuum cleaner. Still, past the novelty, most of the time, we do not let it turn around. We shut up in a room, alone, the time to do its job. Not only because it is a cleaner sound, but because his disorderly movements are unbearable ... Of course, the first time the children are enthusiastic. They participate in household chores. They pave the Rumba, but do we not already rehearsed them to clean their rooms so we can be to clean?
We just feel that the dream of the engineers is that the robot takes care of us, like themselves take care of him, with the same attention, the same kindness, the same concern. They want to put robots Seal in the arms of the elderly, but prohibited their pets ... Still, this gives a strange feeling, as noted Francisco Mondale: it seems that it will be easier to have an engineer to care for a robot to have someone to take care of a little old. We have the impression we are told that the robot is a bridge between the men when the bridge no longer exists. Why do we need the technology to make a bridge between us?
By Guillaud
Debates Opinions Robotics Health home automation future INNOROBO pluslonguelavie ROBOLIFT seniorlab seniors
When you go into a lounge dedicated to robotics as was the case in Borodin, it is interesting to observe the shifts. And the most obvious gap is the one that separates the discourse of facts.
In the discourse of professionals in robotics, robots are already among us. During his introductory presentation, Bruno Bonn ell, chairman of the event, ingrain prospects, as if the organic growth of the market forecasts were assurance of a bright future finally, to justify all business models ... When Showroom, industry professionals were loudly making their hopes, one after another, demonstrating their marvelous achievements. Yet there were many who do not exposed very real prospects of markets ... The world of robotics seems populated by loving researchers R & D and a little dreamy entrepreneurs hoping to sell their robots because they are in tune with the times and it's cool to have one next to his computer or in a pool (yes, there are robots that swim). That is not enough. We know that there are some broken teeth.
toolbox
Image: The indispensable robotics toolbox in the aisles of Borodin, photographed by Russell Davies.
The success of the Rumba, the robotic vacuum cleaner sold over 6 million copies worldwide and been widely copied, and the presence of Colin Angle dapper CEO, came galvanize the troops in demonstrating the success of a highly functional robotics was fortunately there to remind that now robotics is first case of silver and adequacy of an offer to specific needs ...
The success of the robotic vacuum cleaner and some toys that move on their own and play some time our children seems the horizon through which the robot will penetrate our homes. From there to apply the surge of robotics in the field of entertainment and more health, there is not that many entrepreneurs considering lustfully. We are still far away.
For many experts, the aging of the population appears the horizon that will crystallize the golden age of domestic robotics. Despite the hopes raised by research in the field of service robotics adapted to health, we are far from the account. Even in Japan, a pioneer in this area, the results are well below expectations. Even the gentle and kind Parr therapeutic robot seal, would have sold a thousand units ... We too often think that in Asia the development of robotics is quite natural. However, Sang-Rok Oh, director of the Center for the Development of robotics learning of the Institute of Science and Technology of Korea, referring to the Korean educational plan in robotics, has nevertheless recalled that this development does not self-evident. Behind the images of language or gym teachers robots (video), controversies about educational benefits of technology are also available in Korea. "Young people need to adapt to the digital world and some parents ask the school proposes a new educational environment with innovative methods, but others think that children should learn in natural environments without computers or robots. "And the introduction of robots in kindergartens to accompany the awakening of the youngest, as we did it with computers a few years earlier, wake the same opposition. "The Korean society is very conservative, it is mostly very opposed to these new systems." further explained Sang-Rok [1].
Video: Robots teachers in Korea? Behind the image of Spinal of the Reuters report, perhaps more challenge as you think.
Why this failure? First, precisely because all these robots may not meet a specific need. Robots assistance for dependent elderly people, supposed to do everything, ultimately, can not do much. Often we are more playful than anything else in the ... A fun which is rarely offered at the price of fun.
Secondly and most importantly, because this is far from a walk as clear as they say so. In a living room, it is always interesting to look at what we can not see where what we want to do to show you. And when we look away from the scene where electronic puppets are agitated, what do we see? We see computers. You see people who repair packet son or outgoing engines disemboweled robots. We see complex programs that take place as the robots are agitated, but the screens are not turned to the audience. Then you are asked to admire the robots, other glances monitor via computer. The robot does agitated that when tapped the enter key and stops when the program was held. When we see demonstrators repeat voice commands for 10 minutes without the robot hears them, we realize how much the Holy Grail of autonomy is relative. In most cases, engineers are enthusiastic about the mechanical Leos, they fly ave a remote control or a program, fun all day trying to make them work, make them respond as they have to meet, operate as they should work ... Not sure it amuses the public or the elderly having to look into the bowels of their robots all day long. Robots programming will struggle to convince beyond a small circle of enlightened geeks.
The third reason I think is certainly looking into the uncanny valley, this strange valley inhabited by the people of scrap metal and engines. Who has not heard a robot trying to climb stair steps next to you, the strength of its tracks, will possibly not understand ... But the unbearable thunder that accompanies makes you quickly realize that you can not live forever with him. Nor would you live with a vacuum cleaner ... Many owners of Rumba certainly christened the name of a small - what they were already doing with some non-robotic objects indeed, but not necessarily with their vacuum cleaner. Still, past the novelty, most of the time, we do not let it turn around. We shut up in a room, alone, the time to do its job. Not only because it is a cleaner sound, but because his disorderly movements are unbearable ... Of course, the first time the children are enthusiastic. They participate in household chores. They pave the Rumba, but do we not already rehearsed them to clean their rooms so we can be to clean?
We just feel that the dream of the engineers is that the robot takes care of us, like themselves take care of him, with the same attention, the same kindness, the same concern. They want to put robots Seal in the arms of the elderly, but prohibited their pets ... Still, this gives a strange feeling, as noted Francisco Mondale: it seems that it will be easier to have an engineer to care for a robot to have someone to take care of a little old. We have the impression we are told that the robot is a bridge between the men when the bridge no longer exists. Why do we need the technology to make a bridge between us?
By Guillaud
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