Humanoid Robots
Robots, which are designed to resemble humans in terms of appearance, are becoming more and more common today.
With this technology, many of us met Robot Sofia.
In 1945, Leonardo da Vinci designed a humanoid automaton, known as an armored knight. However, El-Jazari, who was a Muslim even before this date, developed the first programmable robot in 1203. This robot was actually a boat. I will share another article about El-Jazari with you in the future.
Steam Man, the world’s first humanoid robot, was invented in the 19th century by Canadian professor George Moore. As the name suggests, the energy source of the period was steam powered.
Let’s come to the question of what the state of humanoid robot technology today is…
Another robot that has attracted a lot of attention recently is the world’s most realistic humanoid robot ‘Ameca’, introduced by England-based Engineered Arts.
The gestures and facial expressions of the robot named Ameca are quite realistic. Ameca is actually a chatbot. It can even make the sounds that people make, such as surprise. Company officials said that the robot is not supported by artificial intelligence technology, so Ameca can’t work independently of commands.
The robot will be exhibited for the first time at CES 2022, the world’s largest technology fair to be held in the USA. All these features are enough to make Ameca unique, but Ameca does not have the ability to walk.
Let’s come to other companies that continue their work on humanoid robots and their robots…
CYBERONE-XIOMI
CyberOne is said to be 175 centimeters tall and weighs 52 kilograms.
"CyberOne supports up to 21 degrees of freedom of movement and achieves a real-time response speed of 0.5ms per degree of freedom, allowing it to precisely simulate human movements,” it said. It was reported that the robot can recognize 85 different environmental sounds and 45 human emotions. CyberOne can detect happiness and even comfort the user in times of sadness”
It is said the expected selling price will be in the range of 600 thousand to 700 thousand yuan (about 1.5 million TL to 1.8 million TL).
OPTIMUS-TESLA,SPACEX
Elon Musk, the manager of Tesla and SpaceX companies, announced in April that they were working on a humanoid robot. The robot, which is expected to be named “Optimus” in the information shared by Musk, is expected to do “simple and boring jobs” that people do not want to do first. Elon Musk introduced Optimus at Tesla’s annual Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day. During the promotion, the robot danced on the stage. He waved to the audience. During the event, the images of the robot watering the plants and carrying the metal rods in the Tesla factory were shown to the audience. In this sense, we were able to observe that he could do simple and boring jobs.
Reminding that Tesla has been working on humanoid robots for 10 years in his speech, Musk said: “Our goal is to make a useful humanoid as soon as possible. We still need to work a lot to develop Optimus and prove its usefulness.” Saying that they will start the production of the robot in 2023, Elon Musk stated that they will be able to start taking orders for Optimus in 3 to 5 years. The selling price will be under $20,000.
It has been learned that the robot has the potential to do 8 hours of work. The robot, which is described as 1.73 meters in length and 58 kilograms in weight, will use the artificial intelligence infrastructure called “advanced driver assistance system”, which is used for Tesla’s electric cars.
ASIMO
Since 1986, there have been various versions of the humanoid robot named ASIMO, which has been helping elderly and disabled people with their daily tasks in Japan. It is updated with new features in each version.
ASIMO, which is about 130 centimeters tall, weighs an average of 54 kilograms. Asimo can walk, run, climb stairs, recognize human faces and voices, dance and shake hands.
It can also take commands from humans. For example, it can bring you water or go for a walk with you.
ATLAS
The humanoid robot named Atlas, produced in the USA in 2013, was programmed for searching and rescuing activities. It is a bipedal humanoid robot created and developed by the American robot and AI company Boston Dynamics.
It has a length of 1.8 m. Atlas can open doors and enter buildings, connect fire hoses to fire pipes, climb ladders and overcome obstacles blocking his path.
RASHMİ
Rashmi, which started to be produced in India in 2018, can speak 4 languages. These languages are English, Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri. It is an Indian lip-syncing humanoid robot developed by a programmer, Ranjit Shrivastava. The Robot also has a functional hand with finger movement. Rashmi does not have legs.
AI-DA
Using artificial intelligence, Ai-Da can paint, shape objects, move them, blink and speak.
It was named after British mathematician Ada Lovelace, one of the first computer programmers, and AI, which is the English abbreviation for artificial intelligence.
According to Livescience, Ai-Da’s work in the past consisted of abstract paintings based on complex mathematical models, and her first exhibition sold for over $1 million.
JIA JIA
Jia Jia, who took three years to develop, can speak and move her lips at the same time. The robot was developed at the China University of Science and Technology. Chen Xiaoping, the designer leader of the team, introduced the robot named ‘Jia Jia’, nicknamed ‘Robot Goddess’.
At the launch in the city of Hefei, Deng said “Hello” to the robot.
The robot replied, “Yes, my lord, what can I do for you?”
It is certain that we will see humanoid robots in many parts of our lives in the future. In my opinion, the fact that companies develop and support this technology by putting in large capitals already shows the competition that will occur in this market.
Author: Dilan Sidal
Publication: Not Tutuyoruz
Editor: Ali Eren Kayhan
