Gadgetory

hi I am rofo fess peon at the I Triple E CES booth and this is the verge will robots take over the world yes and the revolution is set for a week from Saturday okay I'm kidding it's this Thursday kidding again as much as science fiction movies might make you think we're ready to rule the world we still depend on you for everything power design manufacturing programming a whole bag of tricks and for every job that a robot takes over from a human there are other human jobs created some would have to build programs supervised and maintain the amazing machines that are robots it's a really impressive demo the interesting thing is the technology here isn't that new at the rest of CES we've seen new displays new form factors but animatronics hasn't changed that much since Jurassic Park 20 years ago the thing is it doesn't have to robots are interesting when they talk you listen to what they're saying it works so well that the Kennedy Space Center is already using Robo fest beam to teach kids about science just to get the kids to listen and the thing is it isn't about technology it's about the art of it it is a robot and we want to make it look like a robot we want to want to know and see how it's actually moving and how it's working now if we didn't have that and we tried to make it more like a human it actually gets to a point where it gets a bit scary when it looks too much like a human but not quite and in the robotics world we call that uncanny valley future abouts another example of this you could do all this with the tablet bits a lot more compelling there's a humanoid presence involved people see a face on a robot and they get the drawn-in there's something interesting about and you see it happen at CES people will be walking by and they'll just get pulled into the magic of it and they'll end up spending five minutes just interacting with the robot yeah it's very Universal that it's mostly the motion and the motion off of his arms his whole body his head and the emotion you get from his eyes he's we've got big eyes that can convey a lot of emotion that's that's where most of human emotion comes from because of course when you're talking to someone you're looking at their right so you have to have oversized eyes like we have on Robo thespian and he's also got LEDs on his cheeks you know he could be Reds is that gray or green if he's happy so that emotion that that motion you don't need language there's no language barrier every country every person can relate to it the big problem for a lot of vendors at CES is how do I get people to come in and actually use my product having a weird humanoid robot solves that in a really elegant way it doesn't have a sharp display or a fast processor but it's got robot pitch and we respond to that we want to know more in the end that might say more about us as human beings than them as machines you