Today's robots are practically essential in multiple tasks, both industrial, educational, healthcare or domestic. However, they can hardly be considered intelligent. And the adjective in question is used with great generosity. But, judging by expert analysis and user experience, they are far from it.
Just look at the mechanical frustration that a living room with various carpets gives the Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner. Be that as it may, the most optimistic entrepreneurs and the most daring engineers maintain that, from now on, this limitation could disappear. The solution would occur thanks to the alliance of generative artificial intelligence and robotics.
This possibility immediately triggers a question. In addition to increasing productivity and encouraging economic activity, will this approach negatively affect human life because it will contribute to destroying jobs? The founder of the company 555vCTO.com, Vaclav Vincalek, recalls that technicians at corporations such as Boston Dynamics and Sanctuary AI are striving to make their machines “more than just cameras on wheels.”
Generative artificial intelligence will allow progress in the so-called “robotic vision”. In this way, the devices will be able to detect objects, segment some images and even produce others naturally. Without this progress, it would be difficult to imagine an invention that was capable of lifting heavy objects or manipulating certain elements as fragile as an egg.
Powers like Japan or Germany are investing a lot of money in this promise. More than half of the entrepreneurs in the Asian country maintain that they cannot find qualified full-time personnel who are familiar with the systems of the fifth industrial revolution. As for the European giant, it is expected that in 2035 it will lose 7 of the 45.8 million workers it currently has.
Another function being considered for these robots is “dirty” tasks, tasks that no one wants to take on. At AMP Robotics they have designed a machine that distinguishes and separates garbage: cans, bottles, paper and other recyclable materials. Paradoxically, Smart Bar equipment, automatic cocktail dispensers, has caused the waiters who collaborate with them to receive 30% less tips because they spend less time chatting with customers.
