Vol 2 Chapter 246: "The 1 hand"

Regarding this smart home terminal, Wu Hao has not announced the price. So everyone here, including watching the live broadcast, is wondering, what is his idea, is it a mistake?

But he looked as usual on the stage and continued: "Although I think the function of this smart home terminal is already very powerful, for me and for many people, it is still slightly inadequate.

It can help us do a lot of things, such as sending and receiving home emails, managing home appliances, querying information, and so on. But in the end, these are all virtual.

It has no hands and cannot help us with some housework.

Many people come back from work and lie on the sofa and don't want to move. At this time, if you open your mouth, someone will bring you a can of cold cola or a glass of orange juice. I think this moment should be very happy.

The party is over and a messy home needs to be cleaned up. At this time, if someone comes to take care of all this, it is also a kind of happiness to you.

Or, if you change clothes, one hand will help you put it in the washing machine to wash and dry it, and then help you take it out and fold it. This may be a family happiness when you come. "

After a pause, Wu Hao watched the audience change the tone with some regrets: "But for young people living in the city, for tired family couples, many times you need this very much At all times, it did not appear. The cost of hiring a nanny was too high, so even if it was very tired and reluctant, it still had to be done.

So can we invent such a hand to help us do these things? "

After throwing this question, Wu Hao looked at everyone and laughed: "In fact, there are. At many previous technology exhibitions, many companies have launched their own home robots or said 'this hand'. But it is a pity These are only conceptual products and have not entered the market.

So we already have such robots or robots in industrial production to help us engage in various heavy production work, why can't such robots and robots enter the home? "

I glanced at the people thinking about the stage, Wu Hao pressed the remote control to change a PPT, "We have summarized three constraints, cost, technology, and availability.

First of all, the cost of such a mechanical arm or robot is tens of millions, at least hundreds of thousands. For most families, it is basically difficult to afford.

技术 Second technology, which is also an important factor restricting its entry into the family. Do not think that the family environment is simpler than the factory production. In fact, the family is a very complicated environment.

The robots that were first engaged in production in the factory have actually fixed programs. Even if there are some variables, they are still within a small controllable range.

But the family ca n’t. The family environment is not a factory, and there are many uncertain factors. This requires robots to think and make adjustments accordingly.

And for a home device, security is paramount. It must be reliable enough not to threaten and affect the health and safety of family members, especially the safety of some children. This puts higher requirements on this device, which also increases manufacturing costs.

The last is usability. What this robot or manipulator can do when entering the home is also a question we have been thinking about.

If the function is too single, then it may be a chicken rib, do you still need to buy it? "

After saying this, he took a sigh of relief after sweeping the crowd, and then continued: "So, at the beginning of the project and doing research in this area, our technology research and development team was caught in tangles and quarrels.

On the one hand, it is arguing about its functions, and on the other hand, it is also arguing whether this product should be developed.

Is it necessary? This is a question many people are asking me. "

"I think it is necessary, as long as it can improve the quality of family life of users. And I think it is necessary, it depends on the advanced level of our development of this product.

If the performance of this product is good enough, then there is no need to have this problem. The cost and usability issues that everyone was worried about before can be solved.

So we entered a long scientific research and public relations work, and cooperated with many industrial robots and manipulators before and after.

As you know, the production volume of industrial robots and robots in our country is among the best in the world.

But the overall level is still far from the world advanced level. And this type of industrial robot and manipulator cannot be directly put into the home, so we need to redesign and develop it.

On the one hand, it is reducing its size. Today's urban families can't afford such a large physique.

On the one hand, it is to improve its flexibility so that it can not only move freely and flexibly at home, but also accurately and timely avoid family and obstacles. There is also the need to be light, flexible and gentle, both in action and at work.

The best thing is to make it as flexible and delicate as a woman's hand, so that it can be more competent for small household chores in some families.

The last aspect is that it is smart enough and humane enough. This is what we call AI technology.

I have to install a pair of eyes so that it can clearly identify everything in the home. Which are family members, which are guests, which are furnishings, and which are tea cup food.

This requires a very familiar and mysterious technology ~ www.readwn.com ~ image recognition technology.

技术 This technology is not considered a mysterious advanced innovation because it has been available in the past. What we need to do is make this technology smart enough to recognize everything in the home.

I have mentioned these few examples above. Everyone thinks it is difficult to identify those things. People, furniture, food? "

I heard the positive answer below, Wu Hao said with a smile: "Everything is answered, but the correct answer is a tea cup.

Why is 茶 a tea cup, because it is subject to change. It is impossible for us to enter all the tea cup styles on the market into the database for comparison, because there are more than ten million tea cups in this world.

Therefore, we cannot use normal graphics to distinguish which one is a tea cup, which requires us to grasp the characteristics that a tea cup must have.

First of all, it must be full of water, and this item has many characteristics. As for the external shape, pattern, and appearance, these are the characteristics of each cup, but they are also interference items that identify it as a cup.

Once it is identified as a water glass, then our system can record the characteristics of this water glass, and it will be quickly and accurately identified next time.

This is the most important self-learning function in AI technology. "

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