Reporter robot

Science has always sought to create robots that replace people in a variety of fields, ranging from health care, education and media.

Intelligent Information System Laboratory of the University of Tokyo (Japan) has just released their baby, robot reporter. According to information on the Gizmodo.com website, this robot is capable of hunting information completely automatically and then report on what it has detected, while shooting with the camera equipped available. Not only that, the reporter robot can also interview the people around for more information and use global search results for background or marginals. Once self-evaluating is in the hands of a worthwhile story, the robot completes the article and sends it straight to the internet. What a remarkable invention.

Auto press has begun to emerge from last year. Researchers at Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory in Illinois have written a program called Stats Monkey. This is a software that can write a complete sports article including titles and images based on the analysis of the baseball game scores. The software can even broadcast original news feeds by compiling images and comments from the internet.

However, the new journalist robot really elevates this phenomenon to a new level. According to experts, this is the first robot capable of gathering the main source of information from people present at the site. This is the true press, though still in its infancy. In addition, these 'reporters' can go anywhere that is considered dangerous to real human colleagues. In 2002, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created the eXplorer robot to inform the war in Afghanistan, of course, the robot was remotely controlled, not the current generation of high-tech reporters.

By combining the real world and internet research, the University of Tokyo robotics journalists are one step closer to the same automation systems. Just for extra time, these types of robots can become valuable assets for information hunting anytime, anywhere.