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Last month Apple provided more insight into consumer robotic work research article This claims that properties, such as expressive movements, are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” begins the meaning, “people are very sensitive to movement and subtle changes in movement.”
To illustrate it, Apple pays tribute to Pixar, another company founded with the help of late Steve Jobs. Since Pixar first debuted A named after 1985 short filmLuxo Jr. Lamp was a longcut of the animated studio. For his research, Apple also chose a lamp for its own “non -anthropomorphic” example. After all, the lamps do not have obvious human qualities, but they can behave in a familiar way.
“In order for robots to interact with people of course,” notes paper, robot movement design also needs to integrate expressive qualities such as intent, attention and emotions, traditional functional considerations such as the task and the task with time efficiency. “
THE video Together with the paper, it presents some of these movements. Not surprisingly, it is most echoed by Pixar’s creation. This includes the same analogue components, the lampshade is served as a head, while the arm stands on the neck.
The most interesting part of the video is the user query the robot for potential production. The simplest, the anonymous lantern robot, acts as a kinetic version of Homepod, Amazon Echo or other intelligent speakers. The person overlooking the lamp asks a question and answers the robot in Siri’s voice.
The shared screen video highlights the importance of expressive movements. To the question of what the weather is, one version simply gives the answer. The other rotates his head to look out the window, as if the view provides insight into which the robot can draw. It’s a simple example but the one that brings home to make even small movements get involved in the lizard’s brain Pareidol– Knowledge of expressive movements promotes the formation of the relationship between human and object.
Apple’s research arrives as the company is said to accelerate the efforts of consumer robotics before the planned edition of a more advanced intelligent home system. Obviously, how to apply these lessons to make a robot home node more expressive. This is similar to the approach that Amazon applied with Astro’s robot. However, incorporating the factor of non -anthropomorphic forms into research means that the robot can be even less humanoid than Amazon.
The rumors surrounding the upcoming edition described the node as a “robot arm with an iPad”. It is easy to see how to apply the lamp cleaning factor there. Of course, Apple’s Consumer Robotics Department seems to continue to be the research phase. There are many times from time to time, from the significant shift of the form factor to the decision to draw the project before starting.
