This Humanoid Robot Can Make Itself Taller and Open Doors

I'm Meeting Up with an Old Robot Friend

I'm meeting up with an old robot friend who's got some new tricks, new sensors, and new accessories, and he's got something for me. Hey AO, Ayo is sensing the table using all of the vision sensors inside the cameras inside you to see where this table is located, making sure it lifts up the package high enough to not smack into anything around it and delivers me my package. Thank you, notice how he also gets taller to reach the table, that's so neat.

Let's See What I Got in My Package

Okay, so obviously, you could do a lot more than just deliver lunch. This is the latest invention from aeolus Robotics, and it has a gripper arm that is able to do so many exact things mixed with all of this vision technology inside that it can go use elevators, things that you and I take for granted, pushing an elevator button being able to turn a doorknob handle and push a door open. So these small things to us are actually big challenges in robotics, and this guy's getting better at that.

This Is AO, the Newest Assistant from aeolus Robotics

This is AO, the newest assistant from aeolus Robotics, and we're getting an early preview of what it can do at CES 2023. We first saw these robots at CES in 2018, and early versions have been deployed in Japan. They're assisting nurses at Elder Care Providers, they're doing jobs like delivering medical supplies and providing security patrol for the night shift. There's a lot of new functionality here that we're being showcased.

First Off, the Face: Lots of New Sensors

First off, the face, lots of new sensors here including the ability to do infrared sensing so this guy can go in the dark like a security camera and be able to find its way around. There's also depth sensing cameras, a regular RGB camera, and with all those different things it's able to do skills like being able to recognize faces, be able to recognize objects, to know about a door handle where that door handle is placed. The three dimensions that you need to be able to navigate a world, whether it's putting a box on a table or being able to push an elevator button.

The Various Camera Sensors

The various camera sensors packed in here are helping the robot with object and facial detection so we can learn who a patient is to greet them and also alert a nurse if that person isn't where they're supposed to be. Posture identification can help know if someone is on the ground and needs help. These grippers can be swapped out for whatever the needs are here in this demo, we have a UV sanitizing hand so it can go over handrails very specific areas that it needs to to be able to keep an area clean but also this gripper can do things like do the elevator doors open, handrails pick up objects.

More and More Accessories

They have more and more accessories depending on whether this is going to be something that helps a hotel or helps someone in Elder Care. Now depending on what services AO is doing it's going to need a recharge at about six to eight hours and it'll be able to just kind of automatically pilot itself to a recharge station, to kind of back up and plug its way in.

How Much Is It Going to Cost?

It is priced like a service with a monthly fee depending on the needs. Where do you think this robot could be the most helpful in your life? Let us know in the comments. I'm always fascinated by how robotics companies make a robot have these humanoid features that don't seem threatening and they're friendly of course cute eyes, helps I like his size he can extend if he needs to but of course what better way to really relate to a robot and feel connected than to take a selfie? Okay, get ready now three two one hey Siri, take a selfie, snap.