December 2012

“Roboticists have been successful in designing robots capable of superhuman speed and precision,” Brooks said. “What’s proven more difficult is inventing robots that can act as we do — in other words, that are able to inherently understand and adapt to their environment,” he said. According to the International Federation of Robotics there are now 1.1 million working robots in the world. In car manufacture, about 80 per cent of the production is completed by machines. To teach Baxter a new job, a human guides its arms to simulate the desired task, and presses a button to program in the pattern, the report said. The robot responds with a confused expression, if it does not understand, it added.

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