Three Elements of a Truly Intelligent Robot

I finally took some time out yesterday to finish watching the movie "Mega Hero 6" that everyone has been posting on WeChat Moments. Of course, the impression of Baymax is also deeply engraved in my mind. Why is Baymax so popular? It's simple, he's a warm guy. As director Chris Williams said, "Everyone wants Baymax... because he always gives and never asks for anything."

As a medical intelligent robot, the "Dabai" in the film is not only cute, funny and warm, but also can make accurate judgments on human health and provide timely treatment. In addition to the polyurethane balloon-like shell and titanium skeleton, it has the ability to recognize voice and scan human vital signs. Isn't this a very reasonable and mainstream design a benchmark for current intelligent hardware?

However, considering the current speed of technological development, it is not impossible to realize Dabai within the next five years. Dabai mainly integrates the three real-life technologies of robot manufacturing, artificial intelligence and smart medical care.

1. Artificial Intelligence:

When it comes to artificial intelligence, I can't help but think of Microsoft's Cortana and Apple's Siri, which have been ruined.

Yesterday, my colleague Guoren wrote a report about Apple HomeKit, which actually said that Apple can use Siri to use the HomeKit platform to control home appliances. Of course, Cortana can also do a lot of things, and Microsoft Cortana's semantic understanding is many times stronger than Apple Siri's semantic understanding.

The intelligent interaction between mobile phone users and Microsoft Cortana is not a simple mechanical storage-based question-and-answer session, but a dialogue. AI robots such as Cortana and Siri record user behaviors and usage habits, and use cloud computing, search engines, and "unstructured data" analysis to read and "learn" data such as text files, emails, pictures, and videos in the mobile phone to understand the user's semantics and context, thereby achieving human-computer interaction.

Isn’t it cool to think that now we can just plug in the power and say “Hey, Siri, what’s the weather today?” We can joke with Cortana and Siri on our phones without restraint. This kind of artificial intelligence has become a reality.

2. Smart mobile medical care

The camera, as the "eyes" of the nursing robot Dabai, is always scanning, analyzing and recording its owner, which greatly challenges traditional living habits. Dabai's biggest task is to scan the target user through cameras and other devices, perceive their physical signs, health data and emotions, and then take measures to provide health care.

Ahong was hugged by Dabai twice. Once was when his brother died and he was depressed and was scanned by Dabai. Another time was when he fell into the water and Dabai sensed that his body temperature had dropped. Dabai adjusted its own temperature to raise Ahong's body temperature.

For today's smart medical products, many focus on heart rate and blood pressure. For example, various smart blood pressure monitors connect to the Internet to analyze the detected data and make reasonable suggestions; smart neck rings detect the user's movements in real time, track the user's neck movements, and encourage users to exercise more; heart rate detection devices on mobile phones, etc.

3. Robot manufacturing

Dabai's ability to scan the human body has a reference in reality. Microsoft's Kinect One and Leap Motion also have this function. They can already identify muscle stretching, body temperature and heart rate by intercepting the color of the human body surface.

The data obtained by machines are also needed in health care, although the overall accuracy needs to be improved.

In the movie, Baymax created a typical example of an intelligent robot for us, but current artificial intelligence has not yet reached the level in the movie, and the manufacturing level is not yet able to allow the robot to have a hard torso and an invulnerable balloon shell.

Summarize:

After attending CES, MWC, AWE and other exhibitions related to smart products, Chou Mao can feel that any smart wearable products such as smart bracelets and watches are actually a prototype of smart robots. The current intelligence is still only at the stage of detection and analysis, and is still a long way from true artificial intelligence.

However, unlike traditional electronic products, smart wearable products have closer contact with people, and the information obtained, including human physiological data, is more confidential. They can also provide people with life suggestions such as health analysis.

Although all this still seems so blunt, this approach will change people's acceptance of machines, and this will also accelerate the process of robots integrating into people's lives.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.