Amazon said that the “Digit” robot is currently in the testing phase. The robot is mainly used to undertake a large number of tasks that are “too repetitive, physically demanding, or too dangerous for humans.”

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It is reported that the “Digit” robot adopts a “human” appearance design. While being more friendly, it can use both hands to carry empty boxes and some plastic boxes containing a small number of small items.

The “Digit” robot is 5 feet 9 inches tall (about 1.75 meters) and weighs 140 pounds (about 63.5 kilograms). The robot can currently pick up and carry objects weighing up to 35 pounds (about 15.8 kilograms).

In addition, Amazon also announced a robot called “Sequoia”, which is mainly used to “faster identify and store inventory in the operation center.” It is claimed to be able to shorten the time of order processing through the operation center by more than 25%, which can Improve shipping predictability and the ability to increase the number of items Amazon can offer for same-day or next-day delivery.

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Comprehensive Zhejiang Online and other local media reported that after the athletes throw the discus, the robot dog will transport the discus from the finish line back to the starting point. According to reports, the dogs come from a technology company in Binjiang, Hangzhou, and are known in the industry as “quadrupedal robots”. Among them, the smaller robot will complete the front flap, sit, bowing and other actions, while the latest generation of robots can complete the counting, translation, directions and even broadcast the weather and other functions.

The company developed a machine dog in the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival Gala stage appearance, and performance. The relevant reports that the reason why machine dogs are for the transportation of sports equipment, is because of their speed and human jogging. In addition, the robot dog is equipped with a load-bearing 1-2kg standard discus on the back of the slot, the staff will be placed in the discus after the slot and can be manipulated the first time the robot dog will be transported back to the starting point of the discus, the average distance between each round trip is about 120m, in accordance with a game back and forth 60 times to calculate the words, is equivalent to the previous discus competition staff more than 7000m of workload.

Reportedly, due to the movement of the robot dog caused by the discus center of gravity change, easy to lead to the transportation process “overturned” and thus wear and tear of the game equipment, so the staff adjusted the motion control algorithm, to ensure that the robot dog can move freely when the weight is loaded.

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Following Tesla, Google and Microsoft, Samsung Electronics has also set its sights on the development of humanoid robots. According to foreign media reports, the company has begun a comprehensive study on how to develop humanoid robots that walk on two feet like humans.

Humanoid robots are expected to have a wider range of uses and potential than regular robots, the report said. With the commercialization of humanoid robots, Samsung Electronics is looking at medium and long-term strategies for its robotics business.

Tesla is said to be a pioneer in the humanoid robotics market, and in October 2022, the company formally introduced its first humanoid robot, Optimus, at an AI Day event, which is scheduled to go on sale as early as next year for $20,000 each.

According to Tesla CEO Musk, Optimus will stand 5’8″ (173cm) tall, weigh 125 pounds (56kg), walk at 5 miles per hour (8km/hour), lift up to 45 pounds (20kg), and have a screen on its head so users can access useful information. Information.

According to the media, Tesla’s Optimus Prime will likely be fully integrated with Tesla’s latest technologies, including Autopilot, artificial intelligence and Neuralink.

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Electronic skin is soft and stretchable while mimicking the sense of touch and operating efficiently at low voltage

This electronic skin is as soft as real leather, and the conversion elements are seamlessly embedded in it, with a thickness of only tens of nanometers. The development opens up the possibility of a more natural interaction between artificial intelligence prosthetics and the brain and lays the groundwork for building robots that can “feel” human sensations such as pain, pressure and temperature.

“Our dream is to make a complete hand with multiple sensors that can sense pressure, strain, temperature and vibration, and then we can provide a A real feeling.”

The new electronic skin only needs to operate at 5 volts to detect stimuli similar to real skin, offering electrical performance comparable to polysilicon transistors, such as low-voltage drive, low power consumption, and modest circuit integration.

A key reason people give up using prosthetics is that the lack of sensory feedback makes them feel unnatural and uncomfortable, the researchers said. The e-skin was first tested in the brain cells of rats. When their cerebral cortex was stimulated, the animals twitched their legs in proportion to their stress levels. “Electronic skin erases the boundary between living organisms and machine components,” said the researchers, whose report, “The Disappearing Boundary Between Organisms and Machines,” was published this week in the journal Science.

It is noticed that as early as March last year, scientists at the University of Edinburgh announced related progress. They created an electronic skin consisting of a thin layer of silicon embedded with wires and sensitive detectors that “enables soft robots to sense objects that are only millimeters away from them in all directions at extremely fast speeds,” a development “for the first time. endowing robots with a level of physical self-awareness similar to humans and animals.”

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The video was originally posted on Saturday by a TikTok account named Bostom_Dynamics (note the spelling details). The next day, the video made its way to Twitter, where it was shared by a user who questioned, “Why is Boston Dynamics teaching their robots to fight?” Many users on both social media platforms assumed the video was real and expressed concern about this technology. However, there were also many who doubted the authenticity of the video, with many users thinking it looked like it was made with CGI technology.

This video is not real, and there are several proofs to prove it. First, the TikTok account that posted the video used a misspelled name, Bostom_Dynamics, and second, Boston Dynamics does not have a TikTok account. The video also does not appear on any of Boston Dynamics’ social media accounts, including its popular YouTube account. Twitter has added a community alert to the video stating that it is not real. Some of the users who responded said that Twitter’s tip helped them determine the video’s authenticity.

The video is just one of many fake Boston Dynamics robot videos made with CGI technology, including those from the Corridor Crew, a visual effects YouTube channel that also uses CGI technology to bring Boston Dynamics robots to life.

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According to research by Brigham Young University sociology professor Eric Darling, there’s no need to worry about robots taking over jobs. Darling’s research shows that robots are not replacing humans at the rate that many believe and that people tend to vastly overestimate the extent to which robots will take over the workforce.

The study, recently published in the paper “Sociological Studies in a Dynamic World” in the journal Socius, found that only 14 percent of workers said they saw their jobs replaced by robots. But those who experienced job displacement by robots exaggerated the impact of robots taking jobs away from humans by about three times.

To understand the relationship between job loss and robots, Obayashi surveyed nearly 2,000 employees about their views on jobs being replaced by robots. Respondents were first asked to estimate the proportion of employees whose employers replaced jobs with robots. They were then asked whether their employers had ever replaced their jobs with robots.

Those who have been replaced by robots (approximately 14%) estimate that 47% of all jobs have been replaced by robots. Likewise, those who have not experienced job displacement still estimate that 29 percent of jobs have been replaced by robots.

“In general, our perception of robot replacement is greatly exaggerated,” Darling said. “Those who didn’t lose their jobs overestimated by about a double, while those who lost their jobs about three times overestimated.”

Headlines predicting a grim future for jobs are likely overstating the threat of robots taking over jobs, Darling said, noting that human fears of being displaced by automated workflows date back to the early 1800s.

“We expect new technologies to be adopted regardless of all the relevant contextual barriers, such as the cultural, economic and governance arrangements that support the manufacture, sale and use of the technology,” he said. “But simply because of what a technology can be used for, doesn’t mean it will be implemented.”

The findings are consistent with previous studies showing that robots are not replacing workers, Darling said. Instead, workplaces are integrating workers and robots in ways that create more value for human labor. An everyday example is an autonomous, self-propelled machine roaming the shelves and cleaning the floors at your local grocery store. The robot cleans floors while employees clean under shelves or other hard-to-reach places. “

The aviation industry is another good example of robots and humans working together, Darling said. Aircraft manufacturers use robots to paint the wings of planes. The robot can finish a coat of paint in 24 minutes – something that would take a human painter several hours to complete. While the robot is painting, humans are loading and unloading the paint. “

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Some exhibits made the audience feel subtle, such as an engineer and “same face” simulation robot together, which made people worry about how to do if it is used to engage in face recognition bank card theft?

At such an exhibition, you will definitely think: what kind of robot do I want? Your ideas will determine the future of a super industry.

The idea of replacing humans with robots to complete heavy production line work is becoming a reality. 2021, the density of industrial robot use in the global manufacturing sector has reached 126 units per 10,000 people, nearly doubling from 66 units per 10,000 people in 2015, and the trend of “machine for human” is obvious.

Applications are the driving force behind the rapid development of the robotics industry. The development of industrial robots in China has benefited from this. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the high-quality development of new energy vehicles, photovoltaic batteries, integrated circuits and other emerging industries are inseparable from industrial robots. China has been the world’s largest consumer of industrial robots for many years, with 52 major industry categories and 143 industry medium categories in the national economy using industrial robots. 2021 China’s industrial robot sales reached 256,300 units, up 49.5% year-on-year.

Demand is driving technological progress and industrial growth. The precision reducer, which controls the movement of the robot’s “joints”, is one of the core components of the robot, which had been monopolized by foreign enterprises for decades, but has now been broken through by many domestic enterprises. In 2021, China’s industrial robot production reached 366,000 units, up 67.9% year-on-year.

Behind the continuous positive development of the robot industry, it is important to see that, compared with international robot giants, domestic robot enterprises still have the problems of small market value and weak profitability. Robotics companies should consider how to meet market demand more in order to open up a larger blue ocean. From the demand analysis, the industrial robot market is just right, and the growth potential is still sufficient. Similarly from demand analysis, the future market prospect of non-industrial robots such as service robots is much larger than that of industrial robots. Whoever dominates non-industrial robots in the future will be able to dominate the global market. Products that can be sold into thousands of households are the big blue ocean industry, and who doesn’t want a robot at home?

From technology-driven to business-driven, we can’t relax the requirements of technological innovation, but we must start from consumer needs and try to turn consumers’ dreams into reality. To do this, stronger positive design capabilities and original technology accumulation are needed. For example, many people want robots to help humans complete boring household chores, an idea that has only partially become a reality. 2021, China’s floor cleaning robot sales scale of 11 billion yuan, up 17% year-on-year, the market volume for the first time more than the United States, retail sales accounted for 32% of the global. The “lazy man’s economy” has given rise to a rapidly growing market for floor cleaning robots, yet there are many more needs that are not being met, such as nanny robots and elderly robots. The unmet needs are not because we don’t know about them, but because we haven’t made a product that satisfies the market. After all, it’s much harder to do than to think.

The robot dog at the robotics conference can be a pet or a rescue, depending on what your needs are. What kind of robot do you want? The answer to this question determines the future picture of society. We expect robots to become as common as smartphones, and we expect everyone’s dreams about robots to come true.

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