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Regarding this smart home terminal, Wu Hao has not announced the price. So everyone here, including those watching the live broadcast, is wondering, what idea is he making, or is it a mistake.

But when he saw the stage, he continued with his face as usual: "Although I think the function of this smart home terminal is very powerful, it is still slightly insufficient for me and many people.

It can help us do many things, such as sending and receiving and managing home emails, managing home appliances, querying information, and so on. But in the end, these are all virtual.

It has no hands and cannot help us with some housework.

Many people come back from get off work, lie on the sofa and don't want to move. At this time, if you open your mouth, someone will bring you a can of iced Coke or a glass of orange juice. I think this moment should be very happy.

After the party is over, the messy home needs to be cleaned up. If someone comes to take care of it at this time, it will also be a kind of happiness for you.

In other words, when you change clothes, there is a hand to help you put them into the washing machine to wash and dry, and then take them out and fold them for you. This may also be a kind of family happiness for you when you come. "

After a pause, Wu Hao looked at the people in the audience and said with a somewhat regretful tone: "However, for young people living in cities, for tired families and couples, there are many times when you really need this. It didn't show up when everything was going on. And the cost of hiring a nanny was too high, so even though it was tiring and reluctant, it had to be done.

So can we invent such a hand to help us do these things? "

After throwing this question, Wu Hao looked at the crowd and said with a smile: "In fact, there are. In many past technology exhibitions, many companies have launched their own home robots or 'this hand'. But it's a pity , these are just concepts and have not entered the market.

So we already have such robots or manipulators in industrial production to help us do all kinds of heavy production work. Why can't such robots and manipulators enter the home? "

Glancing at the people in the audience who were thinking, Wu Hao pressed the remote control to change a PPT and said, "We have summarized three constraints, cost, technology, and usability.

First of all, the cost of such a robotic arm or robot can range from tens of millions to hundreds of thousands. For most families, it is basically unaffordable.

Secondly, technology, which is also an important factor restricting its entry into the family. Don't think that the family environment is simpler than factory production. In fact, the family is a very complex environment.

First of all, for robots engaged in production in factories, their programs are actually fixed. Even if there are some variables, they are within a small controllable range.

But not the family, the family environment is not a factory, there are many uncertain factors. This requires robots to recognize and think and adjust accordingly.

And for a home device, security is paramount. It must be reliable enough not to threaten and affect the health and safety of family members, especially the safety of some children. This puts forward higher requirements for this device, which also increases the manufacturing cost.

Finally, in terms of usability, what can this robot or manipulator do when it enters the home?

This is something we have been thinking about all the time.

If the function is too single, then it may be a tasteless rib. Is there a need to buy it? "

After saying this, he swept the crowd around and took a sigh of relief, and then continued: "So, at the beginning of the project to do research in this area, our technical research and development team was caught in a tangle and quarrel.

On the one hand, it is arguing about its functions, and on the other hand, it is also arguing whether this product should be developed or not.

Is it necessary, that's the question a lot of people are asking me. "

"I think it is necessary, as long as it can improve the quality of users' family life. And I think whether it is necessary or not depends on the advanced level of our research and development of this product.

If the performance of this product is good enough, then there will be no need for this problem. The cost and availability issues that everyone worried about before can be solved.

So we entered a long scientific research and public relations work, and cooperated with many industrial robot and manipulator companies before and after.

As we all know, our country's production volume of industrial robots and manipulators is among the highest in the world.

But the overall level is still a long way from the world's advanced level. Moreover, such industrial robots and manipulators cannot be directly put into the home, so we need to redesign and develop it.

On the one hand, it is to reduce its size. Today's urban families cannot accommodate such a large physique.

On the one hand, it is to improve its flexibility, so that it can not only move freely and flexibly at home, but also accurately and timely avoid family members and obstacles. There must be light, flexible and gentle both in action and at work.

The best thing is to make it as flexible and delicate as a woman's hand, so that it is more capable of small household chores in some families.

The last aspect is to make it smart enough and humane enough, which is what we call AI technology.

It has to be equipped with a pair of eyes so that it can clearly identify everything in the family. Which are family, which are guests, which are furnishings, and which are teacup food.

This requires the use of a very familiar and mysterious technology, image recognition technology.

This technology is not a mysterious advanced innovation, because it has been in the past. And what we're trying to do is make this technology smart enough to recognize everything in the home.

I mentioned a few examples above. Everyone thinks it is more difficult to identify those things, people, furniture, food? "

Hearing the positive answer below, Wu Hao said with a smile: "There are all kinds of answers, but the correct answer is a teacup.

Why a teacup, because it is variable. It is impossible for us to enter all the teacup styles on the market into the database for comparison, because there are more than ten million kinds of teacups in the world.

Therefore, we cannot use normal graphics to distinguish which one is a teacup, which requires us to grasp the characteristics that a teacup must have.

First of all, it must be filled with water for drinking, and this item has many characteristics. As for the external shape, pattern, appearance, these are the characteristics of each water glass, but they are also the interference items to identify it as a water glass.

Once it is recognized that it is a water cup, then our system can record the characteristics of the water cup, and next time it will recognize it quickly and accurately.

This is the most important self-learning function in AI technology. "

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