The latest advance in artificial intelligence being combined with robots could take manufacturing and warehousing to a whole new level.
Reported by MIT Technology Review, Osaro – a San Francisco-based company – successfully created a robot arm with the ability to perform a kind of Sisyphean task. In particular, it hovers over a pile of chicken parts, retrieves a piece, swings around and gently places the chicken into a bento box along a conveyor belt The robot arm was created by a combination of older AI tools and more recent developments in machine learning, particularly as they apply to industrial robotics Including AI software in a physical body represents a revolution not just for robots but for AI too, “There is a huge amount of possibility for automating repetitive tasks,” said Willy Shih, trends in manufacturing student at Harvard Business School.
Yann LeCun, the head of Facebook’s AI research division until January, and now its chief AI scientist, wants AI to be able to reason, to see, and to hear. He believes this can be achieved by giving AI a physical presence so it can take advantage of its intelligence in interacting with the real world, just like human babies do.
As machines continue to develop human-like intelligence, there will be an increased need for ethical principles of the type advanced by MDI and its AIWS 7-Layer Model.