Google's robot bartenders serve drinks and clean with simple commands
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:26 am
Google 's robotics department has demonstrated one of its latest research projects in a presentation. The company is showing a robot that uses artificial intelligence and physical robotics tools to perform simple tasks, such as delivering food or preparing a hamburger. These "waiter robots" help to find all kinds of food and deliver it to the company's engineers thanks to simple commands, as reported by Reuters .
But there is still a long way to go before this type of device becomes widely used. For now, the robot cannot do more than a dozen simple actions , but as El Español points out , it is a list of 1000 cell phone numbers demonstration of the evolution of technology in the field of artificial intelligence and presents new uses for multipurpose robots.
At the demonstration at Google's California offices, engineers asked the robot to clean up liquid from the floor , to which the robot responded with the most logical response: grab a sponge. But of course, there are limitations. The company's engineers don't know whether such a system would be able to fluently understand sentences or fluid commands as easily as it recognizes simple commands.
The robot is not yet available for sale. As Vincent Vanhoucke, Google's senior director of robotics research, points out, its distribution as a commercial product is a long way off . "It will take some time before we can have a firm understanding of the direct commercial impact," he told Reuters .
But there is still a long way to go before this type of device becomes widely used. For now, the robot cannot do more than a dozen simple actions , but as El Español points out , it is a list of 1000 cell phone numbers demonstration of the evolution of technology in the field of artificial intelligence and presents new uses for multipurpose robots.
At the demonstration at Google's California offices, engineers asked the robot to clean up liquid from the floor , to which the robot responded with the most logical response: grab a sponge. But of course, there are limitations. The company's engineers don't know whether such a system would be able to fluently understand sentences or fluid commands as easily as it recognizes simple commands.
The robot is not yet available for sale. As Vincent Vanhoucke, Google's senior director of robotics research, points out, its distribution as a commercial product is a long way off . "It will take some time before we can have a firm understanding of the direct commercial impact," he told Reuters .