Collaborative Robots and Artificial Intelligence — Are You Ready?
Saint Amit Ray’s compassionate social robots, and the General Motor’s collaborative robots are the key technologies going to change the world. Here, we reviewed how artificial intelligence, robotics and the cloud might change the future of humanity.
It is well acknowledged that artificial intelligence and collaborative robots will change everything. In the next few decades, the world will become more dependent on intelligent robots in many ways.
Presently, from Google Assistant to e-commerce applications and websites, everything technical is running with AI and deep machine learning technologies. AI is making machines capable of being equitable to human intelligence. From Alexa to Digital Marketing, everything pretty much relies on AI.
Compassionate Social Robots
The idea of compassionate social robots first came up from Saint Amit Ray in 2015. In his book compassionate artificial intelligence, he elaborates the deep compassion and the learning algorithms.
Saint Amit Ray defined a social compassionate robot as an autonomous physical agent that interacts with humans in social context like a human, on all fronts of emotions, intelligence, compassion and creativity. Ray’s theory of deep-compassion algorithms, and compassionate artificial intelligence frameworks are becoming the core components of modern Artificial intelligence and social robot design. Designing compassionate agents that can have the ability to think and act compassionately like a human, is core issues of building compassionate social and ethical robots [1].
“Humans and AI systems are co-evolving. Gradually they are becoming co-dependent. The gaps between human and AI systems are reducing. Establishing heart to heart communication between human and machine is a must.” — Amit Ray, Pioneer of Compassionate AI Movement.
Collaborative Robots
The idea of collaborative robots first came up from a 1995 research mission fronted by the General Motors Foundation. Human-robot collaboration refers to the situation where the human and robot are working together on a common task.
Cobots, or collaborative robots, are robots intended for direct human robot interaction within a shared space, or where humans and robots will be in close friendships.
1. Cobots have safe, smart behaviour
This class of robots is designed to work seamlessly alongside human workers. Unlike regular robots that could hurt a person in their vicinity, collaborative robots use advanced visual technology and are equipped with sophisticated sensors that enable them to detect people and stop or change their activity. Thanks to these advancements, cobots don’t need enclosures to ensure people around them are safe.
“I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Famous AI Scientist.
2. Cobots cooperate with humans
The classic industry robot is autonomous and once set to carry out a certain activity by a trained programmer, it is eft to perform the task following the fixed program.
Cobots, on the other hand, work with people and behave smartly. They are left in the open just like any staff to work in partnership with other workers. They assist in completing complex tasks that cannot fully be automated. They come in handy in a process that is highly repetitive or droning tasks.
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage, therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.” ― Alan Turing
3. Collaborative robots are teachable
Cobots are highly flexible and do not require any expert knowledge to program. You only need a tablet to set the required program on these plug and play generation of robots.
Some can also be programmed by simply moving the arm in the required pattern. Such cobot models actually learn the requirements independently without needing programming.
A technician could simply perform a movement following a given pattern with the robot arm and it will imitate it. Other models can also take work instructions simply by using a graphic user interface.
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” — Stephen Hawking, Famous Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, and Author.
4. You can use cobots virtually anywhere
With their sophisticated sensors and advanced imaging technology, cobots can be used anywhere. They will detect objects or people on their way and stop when necessary. They are also light and easy to move around and use at points other than on the production floor.
“In future AI systems, the interaction between human and machine will be like evolutionary interactions between flowering plants and bees. “ — Amit Ray, Pioneer of Compassionate AI Movement.
Final Thoughts
Safety is at the heart of all collaborative robotics. More research needs to be done before we can treat robots as or true friend. in the sense that we work together on the same task. 2020 is gong to see many new research projects and publications which will investigate how humans and robots can collaborate more effectively together on shared tasks.
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