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I used to be honored to average a panel at CES 2024 to debate how robots are being put to work each day whereas safely working within the presence of shoppers and most of the people. This dialogue didn’t deal with shopper robotics however somewhat took a take a look at a few of the functions the place autonomous machines work together with shoppers.
The panel included Laura Major, chief expertise officer at robotaxi supplier Motional; Bertin Nahum, co-founder and CEO of Quantum Surgical; and Gerard Andrews, senior product advertising supervisor for robotics at NVIDIA.
Laura Major mentioned the protection concerns and difficulties in deploying driverless robotaxis and the way they should safely function to take care of public belief.
“Safety is really central to the mission of autonomous vehicles. Our goal is to improve the overall safety on our roads … we see many fatalities happening every day with human drivers because we get distracted, we get drowsy — any number of reasons for accidents that we can prevent with robots. And so that’s really our ultimate goal. But safety is an important part of our development process, too. And so we go through a very rigorous verification and validation process. Simulation plays a critical role in that overall process. With every software release we build, we can expose that that new software to a year’s worth of driving data that a human driver would have in within one hour and give that feedback back to developers.”
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Bertin Nahum described the advances in surgical robotics and the way robotics are being deployed into the surgical theater to assist help surgeons with each on a regular basis operations in addition to extremely specialised and cutting-edge therapies.
“The good thing about robotics, and this is where it takes all you know, is that robotics is going to help physician performing exactly whichever plan was done. So this is where simulation is really compatible with a robotics. Because, you know, once upon a time, we were in a situation where no matter how accurate you could be in planning, whichever treatment had to be done.”
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Gerard Andrews defined a few of the different consumer-facing robotic functions which are each delighting shoppers and serving to to automate quite a lot of functions to boost the buyer expertise.
“At NVIDIA, we’re really excited about the intersection of generative AI and robotics. I feel like we are just getting started on that journey. But the early indications are that the intersection of generative AI and robotics will be absolutely transformational. The biggest benefits that generative AI are going to bring to robotics is one of them is very tangible is just the fact that the robotics engineer or robotics developer is going to have a ‘force multiplier’ with generative AI, with their ability to run simulations to create assets to run simulations, to run code, to run scripts to create firmware to create test scripts with all the leverage and all the power of LLM.”
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The Forerunner was among the many examples of how robots at work may also help serve folks. Source: Kepler Exploration Robot Co.