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 he is playing and whether it is a mistake.

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

It can help us do many things, such as sending and receiving home mail, managing home appliances, querying information, and so on. But at the end of the day, it's all virtual.

It doesn't have hands and can't help us with some chores.

Many people come back from work and don't want to move when they lie on the couch. If you open your mouth at this time, someone will bring you a can of cold Coke, or a glass of orange juice, and I think this moment should be very happy.

When the party is over and the mess needs to be cleaned up, it will be a blessing for you if someone comes to take care of it all.

Or when you change your clothes, you have a hand to help you put them in the washing machine to wash and dry, and then help you take them out and fold them, which may also be a kind of family happiness when you come. ”

After a pause, Wu Hao looked at the crowd in the audience and said in a somewhat regretful tone: "However, for young people living in the city, for tired family couples, many times it does not appear when you need all this very much. And the cost of hiring a nanny is too high, so even if it is tiring and reluctant, you still have to get up and do it.

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

After throwing out this question, Wu Hao looked at everyone and smiled: "In fact, there is, in many science and technology exhibitions in the past, many companies have launched their own home robots or 'this hand'." But unfortunately, these are only conceptual products and have not entered the market.

So we already have such robots or manipulators in industrial production to help us engage in all kinds of heavy production work, why can't such robots and manipulators enter the home? ”

Glancing at the thinking crowd in the audience, Wu Hao pressed the remote control and changed to a PPT and said: "We summarized three constraints, cost, technology, and availability.

First of all, the cost, such a mechanical arm or robot, the price is more than tens of millions, less than hundreds of thousands. For most families, it is basically difficult to afford.

Secondly, technology, which is also an important factor that restricts it from entering the home. Don't think that the home environment is simpler than factory production, in fact, the home is a very complex environment.

First of all, the robot engaged in production in the factory, its program is actually fixed, even if there are some slight variables, but this is also within a small controllable range.

But the family is not good, the family environment is not a factory, there are many uncertainties. This requires the robot 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 some children. This puts higher demands on this equipment, which also increases the cost of manufacturing.

Finally, in terms of usability, what can this robot or manipulator do when it enters the home, which is also a question that we have been thinking about.

If the function is too simple, then it may be a chicken rib, and is there a need to buy it? ”

After saying this, he swept everyone around and breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued: "Therefore, at the beginning of the project to do research in this area, our technical research and development team fell into entanglements and quarrels.

On the one hand, there is a quarrel about its function, and on the other hand, there is also a debate about whether this product should be developed or not.

Is it necessary, this is the question that many people are asking me. ”

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

If the performance of this product is good enough, then there is no question of whether it is necessary or not. The cost and availability issues that everyone was worried about before can be solved.

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

As you know, the production volume of industrial robots and manipulators in our country is among the top in the world.

However, compared with the world's advanced level, there is still a long way to go in terms of the overall level. Moreover, this kind of industrial robot and manipulator cannot be directly put into the home, so we need to redesign and develop it.

On the one hand, it is to reduce its volume, and the current urban family, every inch of land, really can't 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 around the home, but also avoid family members and obstacles accurately and in a timely manner. In addition, it is necessary to be light, flexible and gentle in both movement and work.

The best thing is to make it as flexible and delicate as a woman's hand, so that it is more competent for some small household chores in the family.

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

It needs to be fitted with a pair of eyes so that it can clearly identify everything in the house. Which are the family, which are the guests, which are the furniture, and which are the teacups of food.

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

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

I gave these examples above, do you think it is more difficult to identify those things, people, furniture, food? ”

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

Why the teacup, because it is changeable. It is impossible to compare all the styles of teacups on the market into the database, because there are thousands of teacups in the world.

Therefore, we can't use normal graphics to distinguish which one is a teacup, which requires us to grasp the characteristics that a teacup must exist.

First of all, it must be filled with water for drinking, and this one has many characteristics. As for the shape, pattern, and appearance of the exterior, these are the characteristics of every cup, but they are also the distractions of identifying it as a cup.

Once it is recognized as a water cup, our system will be able to record the characteristics of the water cup and will quickly and accurately identify it next time.

This is the most important self-learning function of AI technology. ”

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