Rodney Brooks, the famous automated world, Rodney Brooks, has an invitation to wake up to the investors who flow Billions In startups of human robot: you waste your money.
Brooks, who co -founded IROBOT and spent decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is particularly skeptical of companies such as Tesla and Figure trying to teach robotics ingenuity by displaying videos of humans who are doing tasks. In a new articleThis approach calls “pure imaginary thinking”.
The problem? Human hands are incredibly developed, packed with specialized touch receptors in which no robot is close to matching. While machine learning about speech recognition and image processing, these breakthroughs based on contracts of current technology to capture the right data. “We do not have such a tradition of touch data,” notes Bruks.
Then there is safety. Pumping human robots with a full size of walking huge amounts of energy to stay straight. When they fall, they are dangerous. Physics means that the robot twice the size of today’s models will pack eight times the harmful energy.
Brucks predicts that within 15 years, successful “Humanoid” robots have already wheels, multiple weapons, specialized sensors and giving up the human form. At the same time, he is fully convinced that billions today are financing expensive training experiences that will never expand to huge production.