Spider-Man, the cartoon character you are all familiar with.
Overseas theme parks demonstrate how to fly on a spider's web like this, but it's cool, but it looks too dangerous.
I wonder how he acted, but actually this stuntman is not a human but a robot.
Even dangerous acting is more realistic and bold, but robots are no longer just taking over dangerous and difficult tasks.
This is a robot Americana made by Engineered Art Company of England. It is a humanoid that moves like a human.
It's awkward for a while, but he smiles and holds out his hand.
Unlike previous robots, facial expressions and gestures are more human-like.
How I did it, I installed a 360-degree camera and analyzed each muscle that a person uses to make an expression, and a motor was attached to each part of the robot.
When you smile, not only do you open your mouth, but your cheek muscles also rise, and when you squint your forehead stretches and you use the muscles outside your eyebrows as well.
The neck and shoulders are also reproduced as closely as possible to the angle that a person can move.
It's really human.
Why would you make a robot like this? The company explains that it is to develop the best artificial intelligence.
It is said that a human-like body is needed to develop human-level artificial intelligence, for example.
[Why do you look like that? (I couldn't find a suitable word to answer.)] Since
existing
AIs do not
have facial expressions, it must be difficult to understand these questions, right? However, humanoids can easily understand these words because they have facial expressions.
The level of artificial intelligence is already amazing.
This is a video Google released three years ago, showing artificial intelligence making a reservation for a hair salon.
[Beauty salon: Hello. How can I help you? (I'm trying to make a reservation for the ladies' cut. Will there be seats on May 3rd?) Yes, wait a minute. (Uhhhm~)]
It's like a human being to respond, shall we listen a little more?
[Beauty Salon: What are you going to do? (I'm just going to cut) Then it's ok at 10 o'clock. (10 o'clock is good)] The
hairdresser who answered the reservation call said that he thought it was just a person who made the call.
I had no idea it was artificial intelligence.
Now, it has become difficult to distinguish between humans and artificial intelligence just by talking, especially if it is an artificial intelligence that has a body that resembles a human, it will be able to play more roles.
Last year, the World Economic Forum announced six things that artificial intelligence can never replace, the first of which was human hospitality and non-verbal communication.
It is the communication that comes from gestures and facial expressions.
But there doesn't seem to be any more reason not to.
After just one year, a robot that broke that prejudice was released.
Jobs such as social workers and artists that are related to human emotions were viewed as irreplaceable, but the first stage of emotions, facial expressions and gestures, are already in a position to be taken away by robots.
Many jobs will be lost and society will change rapidly.
There is even talk of a so-called robot tax, which levies a tax on the money earned by robots.
As with self-driving cars, it is also necessary to overhaul the legal system to determine whether the manufacturer is responsible for any problems caused by the robot or whether the user is responsible.
Change has begun, and now is the time to find a way to coexist with robots.
(Video coverage: Lee Chan-su, Yang Hyun-cheol, video editing: Lee So-young, CG: Kang Kyung-rim, screen source: Hyundai Motor Group YouTube)