Last month, Apple showed more ideas on consumer robotics Search paper This argues that features such as emoji are the key to improving human interaction, robot. “Like most animals”, the report begins, “Humans are very sensitive to movement and fine changes in movement.”
To clarify her point of view, Apple praises Pixar, another company that she founded with the help of late Steve Jobs. Since Pixar appeared for the first time in A short movie called 1985Luxo JR. As a long amulet of animation studio. For her research, Apple also chose a lamp for his “non -anthropopic” example. After all, the lamps do not have any clear human features, but can be manufactured in familiar ways.
The paper is noted “in order for robots to interact more naturally with humans, the design of robot movement with the ideal qualities, such as intention, attention and emotions, must be intended as well as traditional functional considerations such as achieving tasks and time efficiency.”
A video It is released by pairing with paper displays some of these movements. It is not surprising that they often repeat those of creating pixar. This includes the same similar parts, with the reflective light that serves its head, while the arm stands in the neck.
The most interesting part of the video, with regard to potential production, comes as a user’s information on the robot. In the simplest, Robot works the lamp whose name has not been named as a more kinetic version than HomePod, Amazon Echo or other smart speakers. The person who faces the lamp asks for a query and the robot responds in a Siri voice.
The divided screen video sheds light on the importance of emojis. When asked about what the weather is, one version simply states the answer. The other turns his head to search for the window as if the width offers an insightful look that the robot can draw. It is a simple example, but he pays home how to benefit from small movements in our seizure brain Pareidol. Knowledge of expressive movements helps in forming a relationship between man and the organism.
Apple research is connected where reports are reported that the company intensifies its consumer robots before the planned version of a more advanced home system. It is clear how this learning can be applied to make the center of the automated home more expressive. It is similar to the approach that Amazon followed with Astro Robot. However, the inclusion of the non -anthropomefic shape factor in the research means that the robot may be less human than the Amazon.
The rumors surrounding the upcoming version were described as “a robot arm with a connected iPad.” It is easy to see how the lamp shape factor can be applied there. Of course, it appears that the Apple consumer robotics section is still the search phase. A lot can happen from time to time, from a major shift in the model factor to a decision to withdraw the plug on the project before launch.