What's next for AI-powered humanoid robots?

The Manila Times

What's next for AI-powered humanoid robots?  The humanoid robot market looks set to explode in the coming years, with companies vying to be the first to get a viable android into our daily lives.  The merging of AI and engineering is also significantly advancing the field of humanoid robotics. Engineers design robots to mimic human form and movement, while AI provides the 'brainpower,' enabling these machines to learn from their environment, make decisions, and perform complex tasks. These advancements have the potential to revolutionize numerous industries, such as healthcare to disaster response.  Multiple startups are foraying into the robotic AI space, including Vicarious, which was acquired by Alphabet-owned Intrinsic in 2022, Universal Robots, Seegrid, and Covariant. Elon Musk said in October 2024 that there will be at least 10 billion humanoid robots priced between $20,000 and $25,000 by 2040.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews #robots

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00:30Okay, thank you.

01:04So Traditional humanoid robots were conceived with a traditional robotics mechatronics techniques.

01:09In the last year there has been a revolution in actuation and in some mechatronics components

01:14and so the robots now are more robust, more efficient, more performing and also the cost

01:19has decreased which enables more companies, more labs to produce new prototypes.

01:26And so we are really witnessing a huge revolution and a huge increase in the number of start-ups

01:34and number of companies that produce new platforms.

01:56And so we are really witnessing a huge revolution and a huge increase in the number of start-ups

02:03and number of companies that produce new platforms and number of companies that produce new platforms.

02:26I think with the new AI methods that are now developed that do image processes, language

02:38processing, we are going to see robots that are more and more interactive, that can understand

02:44our instructions and then translate them into plans, actions, but also that they can understand

02:53new actions on the fly, new actions that are explained by the humans on the fly.

02:58And this is new.

03:00Right now, in the AI domain, there is a lot of work that is done with pre-trained models

03:09that start from a lot of examples, a lot of demonstrations.

03:12But I think it's not that far the moment where the AI methods will exhibit the generalization

03:20capacity that enables the robot to do new stuff that is explained on the fly without

03:27having demonstrations.

03:50The limits in terms of intelligence, well, I guess at this moment is what I just mentioned,

04:07is being naturally in real time able to respond to the environment, to the human, and act

04:19in complex environments like home, for example, or clinical setting like where we are.

04:27So I think this is still a big challenge and we're very far away from making robots fully

04:32autonomous to be able to interact with humans in such a way.

06:19If the pace of building robots and improving their performance and decreasing the cost

06:37continues with the same trend of these last years, maybe in 5-10 years we can see robots

06:46that are really cheap and that you can buy and they can do stuff.

06:51But honestly, I don't know if it's going to be the same price of a car, so something that

06:56everybody has, or something that is more shared, like a tool that is in some places that you

07:02can share, but I don't know if there will be a personal use.

07:47My view is that robots are a piece of technology that are there to improve our lives, make

07:54our lives easier, better, healthier, and I only see the positive side, but I'm aware

08:00that there are people that can also misuse technology, but it's always the same thing.

08:06In every object that you have in your life, you can also find a way to misuse it.

08:11If you have a hammer, you can nail, you can use it to repair a box, something, but you

08:15can also use it to hurt somebody.

08:18At the end, it's the human choice, but I know that we are creating a technology with AI,

08:23with robots that can be easily misused and can also create bad things in a sense, but

08:31I don't want to see this.

08:33So, it's not that I don't want to see.

08:35I know that there is, but I only use technologies for doing things for the public.

08:46No, no, I'm touching the button.

08:53Yeah, we have...

08:59Enough?

09:15Okay.

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