"Only unexpected, no robot can't do it. Your thinking limitation is its only limitation. " -The movie "Hero 6 2"
In the movie Hero 6 2, the lovely robot Dabai won the hearts of all the fans. This oversized inflatable robot is actually a medical companion: through simple scanning, Dabai can detect the life index and treat almost all diseases according to the patient's pain. For human Xiaohong, the meticulous and innocent Dabai is a hero and the best friend.
In the movie, the relationship between human Xiaohong and robot Dabai is inseparable.
In today's real world, the connection between human beings and robots is getting closer and closer: the sweeping robot at home moves around the room flexibly, avoiding all kinds of obstacles and completing the cleaning task perfectly; Through continuous self-learning and evolution, AlphaGo became the first artificial intelligence robot to beat human professional Go players and win the world championship of Go. Humans write 26 English letters through the brain-computer interface, and the accuracy is close to 99% ...
All these phenomena have proved the fact that the era of man-machine birth has quietly arrived.
Scientists believe that man-machine life is the best way for human beings to use AI in the future. Man and machine have their own strengths and complement each other. Just like at work, many repetitive tasks can be handed over to robots, while humans only need to complete more valuable work.
Imagine that the robot housekeeper cooks for us, the robot teacher helps the children with their homework, the robot doctor performs surgery for us, and the brain-computer interface allows us to input information in the most efficient way ... Do you feel that your brain hole is a bit big?
But in fact, human's long-term research on robots has made all preparations for us to enter the era of man-machine life.
Robots, a new species created by human beings.
1959, Joseph engelberg, an American who is known as the "father of robots", made the world's first industrial robot Unimate. Unimate can be driven by hydraulic pressure, and the arm can be controlled by computer to perform corresponding actions, and the accuracy is controlled within110000 inches.
196 1 year, the industrial robot Unimate was installed and operated on the production line of general motors for the first time. It can use a 4000-pound mechanical arm to stack hot die-cast metal parts in turn.
In the following decades, the continuous innovation and breakthrough of robot functions far exceeded the initial imagination of human beings.
1966 Shakey, developed by the Artificial Intelligence Research Center of Stanford University, is the first intelligent robot in the world. It has a visual sensor that can find and catch building blocks according to human instructions.
1995, robots operated on people for the first time at the World Robotics Application Conference. A super professional medical robot, under the instruction of general anesthesia, used a silver needle to puncture the patient and perfectly completed the prostate biopsy operation.
Nowadays, in the era of artificial intelligence, the development of robots changes with each passing day.
In the past, industrial robots emphasized automation and completed a series of actions of precise control, pre-programming and repetition in a known environment. Now, AI robot is an autonomous robot, which can learn, adapt and evolve itself in an uncertain environment.
In 2020, Jamoca, the first quadruped robot in China built by Tencent Robot X Lab, was born, which surprised the eyes of the whole world.
Then, on March 2nd, 20021year, Tencent Robot X Lab released the first multi-modal quadruped robot dog Max, which was completely independently developed in software and hardware. It is designed that the feet and wheels are integrated, and the legs and wheels are integrated. Not only does he have the specialty of "going steady on rough roads, running fast on flat roads", but he can also stand on his legs and "give a red envelope for the New Year" and do difficult movements such as backflips.
Multi-modal quadruped robot dog Max
It was Dr. Zhang and his Tencent Robot X team who created Jamoca and Max.
Research on artificial intelligence with one heart and one mind
Dr. zhang has been engaged in artificial intelligence research for more than 30 years. As the head of Tencent Robot X Lab and AI Lab, he is also a world-renowned expert in computer vision and multimedia technology.
During his study in Zhejiang University, Gu Weikang, director of the department, suggested that he choose the direction of artificial intelligence. At that time, artificial intelligence still belonged to a very emerging field, and its future was unknown. However, under the guidance of the teacher, Zhang saw the great prospect contained in it and its far-reaching influence on the future social development. So, he embarked on this road without hesitation.
After graduating from college, Zhang went to Paris alone and became a doctoral student. He studied three-dimensional computer vision and its application in mobile robots under olivier Jealous, an academician of the French Academy of Sciences, and participated in the development of the world's first mobile robot with stereoscopic vision navigation. There he met a man who had a great influence on him-Thomas Huang, a China visual master. At that time, Mr. Thomas Huang was already a top expert in the field of computer vision and signal processing, and Zhang had just started his doctoral career less than a year ago. Mr. Thomas Huang is approachable, wise and elegant. Although he is an ordinary man, he is always ready to help others. Therefore, Zhang, who was studying for a doctorate at that time, asked Mr. Thomas Huang for advice from time to time and asked academic questions, which made him give directions and selfless support.
Dr. zhang admitted that he was inspired by Thomas Huang's paper. Based on these basic principles, he applied it to uncalibrated cameras, developed automatic image matching technology and invented a new camera calibration algorithm.
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In 2005, Zhang Dang was elected. At the dinner held in Beijing in 2005, Mr. Huang personally presented the award to him. Dr. zhang was very happy: "There really is no more suitable host than him!"
"Zhang calibration method", from laboratory to real world
In 1998, Dr. Zhang proposed a new camera calibration method. Later, everyone called it "Zhang Calibration Method". Now it has been widely used in three-dimensional vision, robotics and autonomous driving all over the world, and won the IEEE Helmholtz Time Test Award.
This method is between photographic calibration method and self-calibration method. The traditional camera calibration method needs a specific calibration benchmark to process the image, while the self-calibration method does not depend on the calibration benchmark, but it is inefficient and time-consuming. The "Zhang Calibration Method" only needs to use a printed chessboard to shoot several groups of pictures from different directions. Anyone can make calibration patterns by himself, which is not only practical, flexible and convenient, but also has high precision and strong system stability. The "Zhang Calibration Method" was quickly widely adopted by countries all over the world, which greatly promoted the process of 3D computer vision from the laboratory to the real world.
Committed to the more autonomous research of the next generation of robots.
It is precisely because of his persistence and enthusiasm in the field of robotics that dr. zhang officially joined Tencent on March 20 18, and took the lead in setting up a robot laboratory, Robotics X, to promote the research on man-machine collaboration of the next generation of robots. Robot X Lab, led by dr. zhang, is mainly engaged in the research and application of three general robot technologies: mobile robot, dexterous robot and agent robot.
After a lot of research, the Robotics X Lab team led by Dr. Zhang found that there are six major directions and trends in the research of robot ontology in the world: bionic, flexible manipulation, tactile technology, multi-robot cooperation, human-computer interaction and medical assistance. These trends all point in the same direction-more autonomous robots. The industrial robot that people used to know is more of an automatic machine, which will repeat actions after designing the program in advance. Now, robots are slowly developing towards autonomy. The purpose of autonomy is to make an autonomous decision on what needs to be done in a dynamic environment with great uncertainty.
When it comes to the development of the next generation of robots, dr. zhang has such a vision: "I hope to combine our robot technology with artificial intelligence, continuously achieve technological breakthroughs, and apply these brand-new technologies to human life in the future, benefiting human society to a certain extent." Dr. zhang has also set long-term goals for the next generation of robots. He said: "We have built a lot of things for this purpose, and we will move towards this dream slowly and step by step in the future."
Leading the power of science and technology and making good use of robots
In the future, will robots become a good helper for mankind and seek happiness for mankind? Or will one day, as described in westworld, be above human beings and even rule the whole earth?
On this issue, the scientific community has been arguing endlessly
1942, American sci-fi master Asimov put forward the famous three laws of robots in his sci-fi series, aiming at implanting these rules into the bottom of robot software, so that robots can be kind to others in the future, instead of becoming our enemies. With the development of science and technology, people's worries seem imminent. When artificial intelligence reaches the technological singularity and completely leaves human beings behind, is there still room for human beings to live freely?
In this regard, Dr. Zhang's answer is: robots and humans will definitely win in the future. This is also the original intention of dr. zhang to establish Tencent Robotics X Robot Lab when he returned to China.
As a very optimistic technical expert, Dr. Zhang said that the ultimate ideal state of robots is to become the guardian angel of human beings. Robots can interact with human beings in all directions and should be combined with intelligent environment and cloud. Only by taking these as the same whole can human beings be protected. Robots should be able to make people live better and live better.
As Zhang said: "The ultimate goal of robot development in the future must be people. In other words, all progress is for better interaction between machines and people, and ultimately better service to people. "
Source: Global Science (huanqiukexue.com)