In the movie Hero 6, the hero has a healing robot, Dabai, who comforts him with his chubby body when he is sad.
In the classic movie Star Wars, the robot housekeeper who speaks like an English gentleman left a deep impression on the audience.
In the classic film "Artificial Intelligence" directed by Spielberg, human beings invented a little boy robot that can be faked. When the real child was terminally ill, a couple adopted the little boy robot "David", but abandoned him after the child recovered. After avoiding the cruel pursuit of the robot slaughterhouse, David began to find his own survival value with the help of another robot played by Jude Law.
The second season of the British drama Black Mirror also tells the story of a human placing emotional comfort on an artificial intelligence robot. The heroine was very sad because she lost her boyfriend who died in a car accident, so she customized an identical robot boyfriend through all traces, conversations and ways of thinking of her boyfriend on social networks before his death.
Our imagination, expectation and expansion of robots have never stopped.
According to the forecast of China Early Education Robot Industry Development Prospect and Investment Planning Analysis Report, it is estimated that the market space of educational robots will reach 300 billion by 2025.
Intelligent educational robots generally have the functions of speech recognition, speech dialogue and early education. This kind of scene-like companionship makes up for the shortage that parents can't accompany and educate their children because of their busy work to some extent.
In recent years, children's intelligent hardware has been favored, and consumer cognitive education has also achieved initial results. In 20 18, the children's watch market shipped 21670,000 units, up 16.6% year-on-year, and the children's robot market sales reached 2.52 billion yuan, up 55.5% year-on-year.
The main users of children's robots are preschool children aged 2-7. Children in this age group begin to actively explore the surrounding environment, develop their own personality and social circle, and are in a critical period of development in perception, language, thinking and emotion. Research shows that more companionship, more interaction and more high-quality materials will be beneficial to children's development.
At present, the appearance of children's robots is basically "round, shiny eyes and overall cute appearance"; Support "voice, key, touch screen interaction"; Although there are functional differences, it basically covers interaction, learning and entertainment.
The price of intelligent educational robots sold on JD.COM platform is mostly lower than 1000 yuan. In 2065,438+07, the average price of robot education on this platform was 564.74 yuan, and in 2065,438+05.94 yuan, the average price decreased.
TOP 10 brands of intelligent educational robots on JD.COM platform are Xiaomi, Future Xiaoqi, Xiaoshuai Intelligent, Pudding, Intelligent Express, Babateng, Dashuai and Ling. Among them, Iflytek leads the industry by virtue of its advantages in the field of speech recognition.
Compared with 20 17 years, in 20 18 years, the proportion of TOP 10 brand in the total sales of intelligent educational robots in JD.COM dropped from 72.37% to 56.56%, indicating that the brand concentration in this market is decreasing and the competition tends to be fierce.
After the evaluation, it is found that the intelligent educational robots with 1000 yuan and 10000 yuan have little difference in functions, and they all cover common functions such as synchronous textbook learning, foreign language learning, leisure and entertainment, video calling and so on. The unique function of ten thousand yuan intelligent educational robot is smart home control.
In addition to functions, educational robots with a price of > 10000 yuan are more abundant, and "wheeled movement" and "biped movement" are more common.
According to Lin Chongde's developmental psychology, 0-3 years old belongs to infancy, and 3-6 years old and 7 years old belong to infancy. Children's robots are mainly for 2-7 years old, from late infancy to early childhood. At this stage, children mainly "play with middle school" and successfully pass through various critical periods of development, such as the positive emotional connection stage of attachment in infancy; 3-5 years old is the rapid development period of children's oral expression ability. Intelligent educational robots can provide various services for children during this period to meet their growth needs.
0 1 Provide personalized content for children.
02 Promote interaction with parents
Excavate children's preferences
Children's robots = advanced toys, which is the status quo of children's robots.
What functions and uses can we expect children's robots to achieve in the future?
0 1 interactive accessibility
The interaction between children and robots is mainly voice interaction, but there are still some problems in the application of voice interaction technology at present, mainly because there are few wake-up-free scenes, the dialogue is unnatural, and the pace of interaction needs people to adapt to the machine.
02 emotional interaction
Robots can obtain children's emotional information through their voice, intonation, expression and body language, and give emotional feedback. The process of emotional interaction needs hardware configuration such as depth camera and mechanical arm, as well as optimization of voice technology. And the realization of the scene is still difficult.
At the same time, there are few corpus learning data for children's emotional judgment, so it is obviously inappropriate to transfer directly from the language-emotional response results of adults to the language-emotional response results of children.
03 multimodal interaction
At present, speech and face interaction are mature, but there are still problems in the technology and implementation of gesture interaction and somatosensory interaction.
04 multimodal data
Children's robot is a set of software and hardware combined system, and behind the function of interacting with children is the comprehensive output of various AI technologies. Because of its large size, children's robots can load more hardware devices, get more environmental visual and sound information, analyze specific interaction scenes and return more accurate results.
05 coordinated movement
What a child needs is a partner. Using pressure sensors and mechanical joint mechanisms to develop more physical exercise ability can bring more interactive ways and cultivate children's more social skills.
Actually, children's robots can do more!
The second national sampling survey of the disabled shows that there are about137,000 hearing disabled children aged 0-6 in China, and about 23,000 deaf children are born every year. A sample survey in Shanghai shows that the incidence of pre-school language barriers is about 7%.
According to the characteristics of children's language development, robots can timely and accurately screen out children with delayed language development ability for intervention, and can also conduct targeted language training for children with language barriers. At the same time, AI technology is needed to establish a complete knowledge map of children's language development and conduct personalized training for children's language data of different ages.
A research team from the School of Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Denver created a humanoid robot to serve autistic children and adolescents aged 7 to 17. The children involved in this project will have a 30-minute class every two weeks. Researchers believe that robots can promote the development of social skills of autistic children more than humans. In addition, robots are more patient than humans and are easier to get close to the hearts of autistic children.
The latest research report shows that there are more than100000 people with autism in China, including more than 2 million children with autism. In the treatment of autism, children's robots can give autistic children a sense of security and make the treatment go smoothly. The Media Lab of MIT has also developed a machine learning method "from the stars", which uses children's robots to accompany autistic children, and at the same time obtains the physical state of autistic children, and analyzes the emotions of autistic children through special neural networks and feeds them back to therapists or parents to assist in rehabilitation.