Robot revolution!

Yesterday was also a novelty toy, today they have invaded our ordinary lives. She is not only beautiful but also good at communication, understands tens of thousands of sentences and responds quite smoothly. Large enterprises in Japan hustle to hire her to be a guest to welcome and see off guests. But Actroid is not a real person.

US President Bush shook hands with Einstein robot

She is a robot with the face and shape of a young girl developed by Osaka University in 2006, now put into production by Kokoro. Actroid rent for five days is 400,000 yen (about 3,500 euros).

If there is not enough money to rent Japanese reception robots, there is still one other robot: the Korean-made Einstein robot. At 1.37m high, weighing 57kg, the robot has an Einstein face with 36 internal engines, which can grimace like a German scientist when resentful.

Students in Seoul really like this robot. There is only one problem: the present Eisntein - iron body - is only good at hitting the groin according to the hansam dance (a Korean national dance), not knowing the theory of relativity! Now there is a small version of Einstein robot, priced at 300 USD (large price is 75,000 USD).

Robots originate from the Czech word ' robota ' meaning ' hard work '. In 1920, Czechist Karel Capek used the word for the first time (he also took ' robota ' in Serb dialect), but by the 1960s, it became popular, especially in science fiction. Fiction.

For a long time, robots were only allowed to do the work of the executives like in an automated assembly line, repeated tirelessly with extremely precise movements. A kind of exemplary worker. In the near future, will robots become ordinary consumer goods? Necessarily so.

Perhaps there has never been a single product that nourishes our imagination so much and inspires so many artists.

Today's robots have imagination and emotions as well. They become new and best friends of many people. In Japan, the robot market has exceeded 500 billion yen (more than 4 billion euros). Big companies like Honda (with Asimo robots who have been to Vietnam), Sony (Qrio) or Toyota - with robots that blow with trumpets - have also perfected their quite clever machines.

Actroid's face

The trend of 'popularizing' robots is spreading to many parts of the world. In France, the Aldebaran Robotics firm promised to turn robots into a popular product like a television. According to marketing studies, French families are willing to spend 200 euros a year to buy a robot.

Bill Gates, founder of well-known software company Microsoft, said: 'I think in the future, robots will be part of our daily lives.'

HRP2 helps housewives from washing dishes, even opening cabinets, taking water for them to drink

Merchants are turning their dreams into reality. Some robots have infiltrated our familiar space.'Give me beer!' You just sat down on the couch, Asahi, 1m tall, approached, agile as a professional stewardess. Its stomach contains six barrels of chilled small beer. When you click on a button on Asahi's stomach, close it, it will refill the cup skillfully: there is foam floating on the rim of the cup!

While sipping beer, you can ask another robot to read the email, write a reply without using a computer keyboard. This robot has a rabbit shape, called Nabaztag, produced by a French firm, priced at just 135 euros.

Nao, another French robot, looks like a baby, can look after your own home. When you are not at home, it will send into your mobile phone photos in the home.

Another domestic maid, the iRobo Roomba, costs 275 euros, can clean a clean dining room, move with a small 'jeep' robot with a video camera. The ' jeep ' tells Roomba the obstacles to avoid.

Some people have expressed concern about new advances in the robot industry. Will one day grow to a high level and add more, will they come back to fight humans? When will they protest? An experiment by Cornell University of America showed that by using electrical impulses, an electronic device, filled with magnets, could produce many of the same things as it. Institute of Applied Autonomy, a research center in California, has also developed a cheap machine on the street corner. When the signal shows that there is movement in the front, this robot will " raise its hand " . broadcast a single transmission and shout . slogan.

Suppose robot camel in the Gulf

Koreans were interested in this issue. In March this year, a group of 12 most famous scientists, lawyers and doctors in Cao Ly's ginseng published a rule on how to behave for . robots. South Korean leaders worry that robots, more and more intelligent, may " abuse the power " sometime. Each year, the government spends no less than US $ 80 million to encourage industrial production of domestic helpers.

Sixty years ago, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov also introduced many rules of conduct for robots, including a famous rule: 'A robot cannot attack a human being'.

From 1 to 10 July 2007, there will be a world football tournament for robots in Atlanta, USA

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