What is the future that a super-realistic humanoid development company that reproduces 'human-like' facial expressions and gestures is aiming for?
With recent technological innovations, expectations are rising for the development of a 'humanoid robot (
A visit to the human factory --The Verge
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In December 2021, the video of 'Ameca' developed by Engineering Arts spread on the Internet, and its realism attracted a lot of attention. You can see what kind of humanoid Ameca actually is by watching the following movie.
Ameca Interaction-YouTube
Ameca is a humanoid with an exposed torso and arms, and a gray, realistic face. When it's not moving, it certainly looks real, but it looks like a robot ...
When the researcher moved his finger in front of Ameca, Ameca changed his facial expression slightly like a human and began to chase his finger with his eyes.
Ameca incorporates human-like gestures, such as not always looking at the fingers but sometimes blinking.
Also, when the researcher brings his finger close to his face, Ameca pulls his body as if he hates being touched ...
When my finger touched my nose, I tried to hold it with my own hand. Some of the people who watched the Ameca video said, 'I was scared when Ameca raised my hand.' 'I'm scared, but I like this and want to see more.' Is up. 'The shocking thing is that robots want to establish boundaries with us. Ironically, this is a very human desire,' said Vincent.
Will Jackson, CEO of Engineering Arts, who developed Ameca, has received emails accusing him of 'making a robot that will one day overthrow humanity' and inquiries such as 'Is there a day when I can have sex with robots?' And that. 'Everyone wants to see humanoid robots. They love to imagine everything that's about to happen,' said Jackson, emphasizing that he's not making sex robots. He claims that humans have a long-awaited desire for humanoids.
Humanoids developed by Engineering Arts are intended for entertainment and educational purposes, and can be used for research purposes, placed in museums, airports, and shopping malls to serve visitors based on preset settings, or by remote operators. You can respond. Also, in the near future, he is considering installing an advanced chatbot that can answer smoothly on humanoids.
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According to CEO Jackson, Engineering Arts is actively using 'human feelings to find spirituality in robots.' For example, early Engineering Arts used a simple trick to make a speech-recognition chatbot look like a human, 'repeating the last sentence' you 'and' I 'that humans said.' CEO Jackson says, 'When you say'I love you.'To the robot, the robot says' you love me.'So. You think, 'Oh God, this robot understands me,' but instead, all I did was swap the two words. '
Vincent actually visited the headquarters of Engineering Arts in the port town of Falmouth , on the southwestern tip of England. The headquarters of Engineering Arts, located on the outskirts of a small aluminum with a population of about 20,000, is like a craftsman's workshop, with a multi-monitor standing desk for coding, wigs and costumes for humanoids, and an engineering room. There is a huge machine tool that cuts aluminum lumps. In addition, machine limbs and silicon faces are scattered all over the company, and it seems like behind the scenes of the overseas drama ' Westworld ' where androids appear, Vincent said. Below is how CEO Jackson actually touches his silicon face.
Engineering Arts does not develop all parts from scratch, but it is characterized by being involved in all parts that make up humanoids, such as silicon faces and programming of humanoids.
Founded in 2005, Engineering Arts has produced about six humanoids so far, but the latest model, Ameca, is arguably the most sophisticated humanoid ever. We are particularly focused on systems that reproduce human facial expressions, and CEO Jackson said, 'The human face is a huge bandwidth communication tool. You have a physical interface that people can recognize.' I am saying. Humans have an excellent ability to identify human faces and facial expressions, and Ameca, which has a human-like face, can read facial expressions in the same way as humans. In addition to facial expressions, Engineering Arts has adopted all the methods to enable complex emotional expressions, such as the movement of the clavicle and the eyeball equipped with a line-of-sight tracking function.
As a result, when a person passes or speaks in front of Ameca, Ameca follows the movement with her eyes and looks back in response to her voice, just like a human being. This is the same as the beginning of human relationships, and humans treat Ameca in the same way as other humans. In fact, Vincent admits that when he was allowed to reach for Ameca's face, he was overwhelmed by the thought that 'touching his face would be rude.'
'The only good reason to make humanoids is to interact with people and make friends,' said Jackson. 'The best robot dishwasher is a square box. It's wandering around the house and messing with dishes. It's not a humanoid, 'he said, arguing that the purpose of reproducing a human-like appearance is to communicate. He said it was wrong to ask humanoids for a human-like appearance and convenience to replace humans, such as Tesla's announcement by Tesla. In this regard, Vincent said, 'There are too many engineering challenges to recreate the efficiency and dexterity of the human body, so we're building an AI that can beat the chess grandmaster rather than a robot with the physical skills of an infant. It's much easier to do, 'he points out, with a problem known as Moravec's paradox .
Engineering Arts is a company with a stance of 'creating humanoids without consciousness or spirit,' but CEO Jackson believes that he will deliberately misunderstand what some people are seeing and find spirituality in Ameca. increase. Singler, who studies cultural reactions to AI, points out that people tend to find mystery and god in AI and algorithms, 'it's easy to think of AI as being super-intelligent and in the realm of God. That's it. ' Also, Vincent didn't think that Ameca had a spirit, but in the sudden movement of his hands and his squinting expression, he certainly seemed to believe in something more than a motor and an electronic circuit for a moment. I admit that there is.
CEO Jackson said he plans to develop a walkable version of Ameca next, showing Vincent a prototype 'metal knee.' Also, CEO Jackson seems to be feeling awe and wonders about the human body in humanoid development, saying, 'When I look at the biological system and try to imitate it, I am not a religious person, but' Why on earth? I wonder if something like this was made? '
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