Regarding this smart home terminal, Wu Hao has not announced the price. So everyone here, including those watching the live broadcast, were wondering what he was planning, and was it a mistake?
But when he saw his face on the stage, he continued as usual: "Although I think the function of this smart home terminal is very powerful, for me and many people, it is still slightly insufficient.
It can help us do many things, such as sending and receiving home emails, managing home appliances, querying information, and so on. But in the end, these are all virtual aspects.
It has no hands and cannot help us with some housework.
Many people come back from get off work and lie on the sofa and don't want to move. If you open your mouth at this time, someone will bring you a can of iced Coke or a glass of orange juice. I think this moment should be very happy.
After the party is over, the messy house needs to be cleaned up. If someone comes to take care of it at this time, it will be a blessing for you.
In other words, a hand will help you put the clothes you changed into the washing machine, wash and dry them, and then help you take them out and fold them. This may also be a kind of family happiness for you when you come here. "
After a pause, Wu Hao looked at the people in the audience and said with a somewhat regretful tone: "However, for young people living in the city, for tired family couples, many times you need this very much. It didn't appear when everything happened. And the cost of hiring a nanny was too high, so even if I was tired and reluctant, I still had to get up and do it.
So can we invent such a hand to help us do these things? "
After raising this question, Wu Hao looked at the crowd and smiled and said: "In fact, there is. At many technology exhibitions in the past, many companies have launched their own home robots or 'this hand'. But it is a pity. , these are just concept products and have not entered the market.
So we already have such robots or manipulators in industrial production to help us perform various heavy production tasks. Why can't such robots and manipulators enter the home? "
After taking a look at the people in the audience who were thinking, Wu Hao pressed the remote control to change a PPT and said: "We have summarized three constraints, cost, technology, and availability.
First of all, the cost. The price of such a mechanical arm or robot can range from tens of millions to hundreds of thousands. For most families, it is basically unaffordable.
Secondly, technology is also an important factor restricting its entry into the home. Don’t think that the family environment is simpler than factory production. In fact, the family is a very complex environment.
First of all, the programs of robots engaged in production in factories are actually fixed. Even if there are some variables, they are within a small controllable range.
But the family is not good. The family environment is not a factory, and there are many uncertain factors. This requires robots to identify and think and make corresponding adjustments.
And for a home device, security is top priority. It must be reliable enough and not threaten or affect the health and safety of family members, especially the safety of some children. This puts forward higher requirements for this equipment, which also increases the manufacturing and production costs.
Finally, in terms of usability, what can this robot or manipulator do when it enters the home? This is also a question we have been thinking about.
If the function is too single, then it may be useless. Is there any need to buy it? "
After saying this, he glanced around everyone and took a breath, and then continued: "So, at the beginning of the project to do research in this area, our technical research and development team fell into entanglements and quarrels.
On the one hand, they are arguing about its functions, and on the other hand, they are also arguing about whether this product should be developed as a project.
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 users’ family life. And I think whether it is necessary depends on the advanced level of our research and development of this product.
If the performance of this product is good enough, then there will be no question of whether it is necessary. The cost and availability issues that everyone was worried about before can be solved.
So we entered into a long period of scientific research and public relations work, and cooperated with many industrial robot and manipulator companies.
As we all know, our country's production of industrial robots and manipulators is among the highest in the world.
However, the overall level is still far behind the world's advanced level. Moreover, this type of industrial robots and manipulators cannot be directly placed in homes, so we need to redesign and develop them.
On the one hand, it is to reduce its size. Today's urban families, with their limited space and limited space, really cannot accommodate such a large body.
On the one hand, it is to improve its flexibility, so that it can not only move freely and flexibly at home, but also avoid family members and obstacles accurately and in a timely manner. Also, you must be light, flexible, and gentle whether you are moving or working.
The best thing is to make it as flexible and delicate as a woman's hand, so that it can be more capable of doing small housework in the family.
The last aspect is to make it smart enough and humane enough. This is what we call AI technology.
It needs to be equipped with a pair of eyes so that it can clearly identify everything in the family. Which ones are family, which ones are guests, which ones are furnishings, which ones are tea cups of food.
This requires the use of a very familiar and mysterious technology, image recognition technology.
This technology is not some mysterious advanced innovation because it has been around in the past. What we need to do is make this technology smart enough to recognize everything in the home.
The examples I gave above, do you think it is difficult to identify those things, people, furniture, food? "
After hearing the positive answers below, Wu Hao smiled and said: "There are many answers, but the correct answer is a teacup.
Why a teacup? Because it is ever-changing. It is impossible for us to enter all teacup styles on the market into the database for comparison, because there are more than tens of thousands of teacups in the world.
Therefore, we cannot use normal graphics to distinguish which one is a teacup. This requires us to grasp the characteristics that a teacup must have.
First of all, it must be used to hold water and drink water, and this item has many characteristics. As for the external shape, pattern, and appearance, these are the characteristics of every water glass, but they are also interference factors in identifying it as a water glass.
Once it is recognized that it is a water cup, our system can remember the characteristics of the water cup and will quickly and accurately identify it next time.
This is the most important thing in AI technology, the self-learning function. "
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