The Future of Robots: From Palm Seikan to Home Helper Robots

Technology is called palm seikan and it's built into robots from a company called Everyday Robots instead of being programmed with commands like if this then that. The robot brain uses machine learning to understand vague instructions like I'm hungry then it works out the steps required to solve that problem. When you think of companies like Google and Tesla, you might not normally think of helper droids but companies like these ones are increasingly taking their AI out of the computer or the car and putting it into a robot body with the idea of getting those robots out into the real world.

Another company to watch in 2023 is Boston Dynamics. You might know this one from videos of Spot, the robot dog exploring caves or dancing to music from BTS. Might have even seen the viral video of Atlas, the robot doing robot parkour. But Boston Dynamics is also one of the biggest players in industrial robotics. In 2020, car manufacturer Hyundai bought an 80% stake in the company and now it's touting robots as a way to bridge the worlds between physical and the metaverse. Even putting robots on Mars. These kinds of industrial robots aren't just designed for remote places; they're also being eyed off by law enforcement. The LAPD is considering using Spot, the robot dog, to boost its police force, while U.S border officials have begun deploying similar robots from a US company called Ghost Robotics at the U.S Mexico border. This raises big ethical questions.

In October 2022, Boston Dynamics and a number of other companies penned an open letter saying "general purpose robots should not be weaponized." But general-purpose robots are very different to ones specifically designed for dangerous situations. Lawmakers in cities like San Francisco are already authorizing robots to use lethal force in situations where lives are at stake. It's clear we're only just scratching the surface of the big ethical debates around robots. How much are we willing to let them into our everyday lives? Robots are already building our cars patrolling our cities, and doing surgery. These are all things that a generation ago might have felt like science fiction.

Let's take a bit of a hard right and talk about robots in our homes. Well, you might not buy a twenty thousand-dollar Tesla bot anytime soon, but if Amazon has its way, you could have a much smaller robot following you around the Amazon Astro launched in 2021. If you have a thousand bucks to spare and you get an invite from Amazon, Astro can be yours. Think of this cute little gadget as Alexa on Wheels with the kind of room mapping you get from a robot vacuum. It's not a full in-home helper it won't fix your broken toilet anytime soon, but it does work as a security robot keeping an eye on things when you're gone. Yes, it can even bring you a beer if someone puts it in the cup holder first in another room.

There are a lot of companies trying to get in on this futuristic world of Home helper robots. We've seen something similar from Samsung which revealed the bot Handy Robot Butler back at CES in 2021. Still, these robots are a long way from becoming the norm in homes all around the world. But if you do want to see a robot in action, you could actually find one at your local mall building. You might build a burger like my colleague Bridget Carey saw or you might find one making a pizza for you in a restaurant. Maybe you'll find one at your nail salon getting ready to paint your nails.

Even the performers at Disneyland are being replaced by robots. Gone are the days of some young actors sweating it out in a theme park in a Spider-Man suit. Disneyland's latest Spidey show is actually powered by a robot and then there are the robots that we might only ever see online in weird viral videos but are invading our minds all the same like this self-healing slime robot developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong or who could forget Pedioroid, a robot designed by Japanese robotics company tmsuk to help teach doctors how to do medical procedures on wriggling children. Yeah, and that one won't haunt your nightmares.

Remember this robot that went viral online? Well, its name is Amica and it was built by UK company Engineered Odds. And I actually got to interview it, which was well a sentence I didn't think I'd say but also I have to say it was kind of like bobsledding Down The Uncanny Valley this robot could respond to my questions with totally normal sentences thank you for the interview and with that face of it I swear it looked right into my soul. So when I say these are robots to watch, I mean we should really watch them because with developments in AI and really natural-looking facial expressions, these robots could become far more lifelike than we're used to. Maybe I'm a robot you never know beep boop.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enTesla is building humanoid robots powered by self-driving AI Google wants to give its AI brain a robot body and Amazon wants robots in your home to deliver you cold drinks the world of Robotics is moving fast in our homes in our shopping malls and even in our police forces wherever they are the robots of the future are going to be increasingly powered by Machine learning and the kind of intelligence that makes them feel even more human here are all the robots that you need to keep an eye on as we go hurtling towards this future and some of them you really want to keep an eye on it wasn't that long ago that robots were essentially pre-programmed assistance designed to serve you food or vacuum your house but now the world of Robotics is being fused with artificial intelligence and the result is futuristic technology that blurs the line between humans and machines maybe the most attention-grabbing example of this is Optimus from Tesla we've been waiting to see this robot since it was first teased back in 2021 and during Tesla's AI day in 2022 we saw it in the flesh can I say that Elon Musk actually revealed two versions of the so-called Tesla bot a prototype built with off-the-shelf parts that actually walked itself out onto stage and a Next Generation model that musk wants to take into production that second Optimus was still in the early stages it had to be wheeled out by Tesla Engineers but eventually musk wants this robot to be a household helper the kind of thing you might buy as a gift for your parents Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot but made in very high volume probably ultimately millions of units and it is expected to cost much less than a car speaking of cars Optimus is actually built on the same self-driving AI that Tesla uses in its vehicles but it's been retrained for a world off the road so instead of detecting nearby cars or pedestrians the robot is trained to detect objects and humans and navigate around the real world isn't alone in trying to get its robots to interact more with the meat space Google is making a big push in intelligent robotics with helper robots that use natural language processing and object detection to understand human requests and perform simple tasks on command the technology is called palm seikan and it's built into robots from a company called Everyday Robots instead of being programmed with commands like if this then that the robot brain uses machine learning to understand vague instructions like I'm hungry then it works out the steps required to solve that problem when you think of companies like Google and Tesla you might not normally think of helper droids but companies like these ones are increasingly taking their AI out of the computer or the car and putting it into a robot body with the idea of getting those robots out into the real world another company to watch in 2023 is Boston Dynamics you might know this one from videos of spot the robot dog exploring caves or dancing to music from BTS you might have even seen the viral video of Atlas the robot doing robot parkour but Boston Dynamics is also one of the biggest players in industrial robotics in 2020 car manufacturer Hyundai bought an 80 stake in the company and now it's touting robots as a way to bridge the worlds between physical and the metaverse even putting robots on Mars but these kinds of industrial robots aren't just designed for remote places they're also being eyed off by law enforcement the LAPD is considering using spot the robot to boost its police force and U.S border officials have begun deploying similar robots from a US company called ghost robotics at the U.S Mexico border and that raises big ethical questions in October 2022 Boston Dynamics and a number of other companies penned an open letter saying quote general purpose robots should not be weaponized but a general purpose robot is very different to one specifically designed for dangerous situations lawmakers in cities like San Francisco are already authorizing robots to use lethal force in situations where lives are at stake it's clear we're only just scratching the surface of the big ethical debates around robots how much are we willing to let them into our everyday lives robots are already building our cars patrolling our cities and doing surgery these are all things that a generation ago might have felt like science fiction okay that's the big picture but let's take a bit of a hard right and talk about robots in our homes well you might not buy a twenty thousand dollar Tesla bot anytime soon but if Amazon has its way you could have a much smaller robot following you around the Amazon Astro launched in 2021 and if you have a thousand bucks to spare and you get an invite from Amazon Astro can be yours think of this cute little Gadget as Alexa on Wheels with the kind of room mapping you get from a robot vacuum it's not a full in-home helper it won't fix your broken toilet anytime soon but it does work as a security robot keeping an eye on things when you're gone and yes it can even bring you a beer if someone puts it in the cup holder first in another room there are a lot of companies trying to get in on this futuristic world of Home helper robots we've seen something similar from Samsung which revealed the bot handy robot Butler back at CES in 2021 but still these robots are a long way from becoming the norm in homes all around the world but if you do want to see a robot in action you could actually find one at your local mall building you a burger like my colleague Bridget Carey saw or you might find one making a pizza for you in a restaurant or maybe you'll find one at your nail salon getting ready to paint your nails well even the performers at Disneyland are being replaced by robots gone are the days of some young actors sweating it out in a theme park in a Spider-Man suit Disneyland's latest Spidey show is actually powered by a robot and then there are the robots that we might only ever see online in weird viral videos but are invading our minds all the same like this self-healing slime robot developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong or who could forget pedioroid a robot designed by Japanese robotics company tmsuk to help teach doctors how to do medical procedures on wriggling children yeah and that one won't haunt your nightmares speaking of nightmares remember this robot that went viral online well its name is Amica and it was built by UK company engineered odds and I actually got to interview it which was well a sentence I didn't think I'd say but also I have to say it was kind of like bobsledding Down The Uncanny Valley this robot could respond to my questions with totally normal sentences thank you for the interview and with that face of it I swear it looked right into my soul so when I say these are robots to watch I mean we should really watch them because with developments in Ai and really natural looking facial expressions these robots could become far more lifelike than we're used to hey maybe I'm a robot you never know beep boop like And subscribe for more videos from me Claire Riley your robot Guide to the Future this is my robot voice very believableTesla is building humanoid robots powered by self-driving AI Google wants to give its AI brain a robot body and Amazon wants robots in your home to deliver you cold drinks the world of Robotics is moving fast in our homes in our shopping malls and even in our police forces wherever they are the robots of the future are going to be increasingly powered by Machine learning and the kind of intelligence that makes them feel even more human here are all the robots that you need to keep an eye on as we go hurtling towards this future and some of them you really want to keep an eye on it wasn't that long ago that robots were essentially pre-programmed assistance designed to serve you food or vacuum your house but now the world of Robotics is being fused with artificial intelligence and the result is futuristic technology that blurs the line between humans and machines maybe the most attention-grabbing example of this is Optimus from Tesla we've been waiting to see this robot since it was first teased back in 2021 and during Tesla's AI day in 2022 we saw it in the flesh can I say that Elon Musk actually revealed two versions of the so-called Tesla bot a prototype built with off-the-shelf parts that actually walked itself out onto stage and a Next Generation model that musk wants to take into production that second Optimus was still in the early stages it had to be wheeled out by Tesla Engineers but eventually musk wants this robot to be a household helper the kind of thing you might buy as a gift for your parents Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot but made in very high volume probably ultimately millions of units and it is expected to cost much less than a car speaking of cars Optimus is actually built on the same self-driving AI that Tesla uses in its vehicles but it's been retrained for a world off the road so instead of detecting nearby cars or pedestrians the robot is trained to detect objects and humans and navigate around the real world isn't alone in trying to get its robots to interact more with the meat space Google is making a big push in intelligent robotics with helper robots that use natural language processing and object detection to understand human requests and perform simple tasks on command the technology is called palm seikan and it's built into robots from a company called Everyday Robots instead of being programmed with commands like if this then that the robot brain uses machine learning to understand vague instructions like I'm hungry then it works out the steps required to solve that problem when you think of companies like Google and Tesla you might not normally think of helper droids but companies like these ones are increasingly taking their AI out of the computer or the car and putting it into a robot body with the idea of getting those robots out into the real world another company to watch in 2023 is Boston Dynamics you might know this one from videos of spot the robot dog exploring caves or dancing to music from BTS you might have even seen the viral video of Atlas the robot doing robot parkour but Boston Dynamics is also one of the biggest players in industrial robotics in 2020 car manufacturer Hyundai bought an 80 stake in the company and now it's touting robots as a way to bridge the worlds between physical and the metaverse even putting robots on Mars but these kinds of industrial robots aren't just designed for remote places they're also being eyed off by law enforcement the LAPD is considering using spot the robot to boost its police force and U.S border officials have begun deploying similar robots from a US company called ghost robotics at the U.S Mexico border and that raises big ethical questions in October 2022 Boston Dynamics and a number of other companies penned an open letter saying quote general purpose robots should not be weaponized but a general purpose robot is very different to one specifically designed for dangerous situations lawmakers in cities like San Francisco are already authorizing robots to use lethal force in situations where lives are at stake it's clear we're only just scratching the surface of the big ethical debates around robots how much are we willing to let them into our everyday lives robots are already building our cars patrolling our cities and doing surgery these are all things that a generation ago might have felt like science fiction okay that's the big picture but let's take a bit of a hard right and talk about robots in our homes well you might not buy a twenty thousand dollar Tesla bot anytime soon but if Amazon has its way you could have a much smaller robot following you around the Amazon Astro launched in 2021 and if you have a thousand bucks to spare and you get an invite from Amazon Astro can be yours think of this cute little Gadget as Alexa on Wheels with the kind of room mapping you get from a robot vacuum it's not a full in-home helper it won't fix your broken toilet anytime soon but it does work as a security robot keeping an eye on things when you're gone and yes it can even bring you a beer if someone puts it in the cup holder first in another room there are a lot of companies trying to get in on this futuristic world of Home helper robots we've seen something similar from Samsung which revealed the bot handy robot Butler back at CES in 2021 but still these robots are a long way from becoming the norm in homes all around the world but if you do want to see a robot in action you could actually find one at your local mall building you a burger like my colleague Bridget Carey saw or you might find one making a pizza for you in a restaurant or maybe you'll find one at your nail salon getting ready to paint your nails well even the performers at Disneyland are being replaced by robots gone are the days of some young actors sweating it out in a theme park in a Spider-Man suit Disneyland's latest Spidey show is actually powered by a robot and then there are the robots that we might only ever see online in weird viral videos but are invading our minds all the same like this self-healing slime robot developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong or who could forget pedioroid a robot designed by Japanese robotics company tmsuk to help teach doctors how to do medical procedures on wriggling children yeah and that one won't haunt your nightmares speaking of nightmares remember this robot that went viral online well its name is Amica and it was built by UK company engineered odds and I actually got to interview it which was well a sentence I didn't think I'd say but also I have to say it was kind of like bobsledding Down The Uncanny Valley this robot could respond to my questions with totally normal sentences thank you for the interview and with that face of it I swear it looked right into my soul so when I say these are robots to watch I mean we should really watch them because with developments in Ai and really natural looking facial expressions these robots could become far more lifelike than we're used to hey maybe I'm a robot you never know beep boop like And subscribe for more videos from me Claire Riley your robot Guide to the Future this is my robot voice very believable\n"