OFweek robot：European robots have been able to operate independently 5,000 meters below the water surface to detect the marine ecosystem for a long time, and they are even capable of deep-sea mining. When nuclear power plant is damaged in Japan, robots replace researchers to step into the site and collect data, protecting human from nuclear radiation. The robots mentioned above are representatives of industrial robot made in Robot 1.0 era.
However, with the development of science and technology, intelligent robot has been brought into human life. Cloud computing and artificial intelligence enable robot behave like human, such as playing chess and chatting. Recently, a fresh batch of emotional humanoid robots bring human being into Robot 3.0 instantly. Hanson Robotics' "Einstein" robot has rich expressions who reappears the master's forehead lines when laughing; Softbank's "Pepper" can recognize whether human is happy or sad; it can make you laugh and even fears the darkness when lights off.
Japan has been studying kansei engineering since 1990s. It is a technology of adding human emotional needs to product design thus bringing joyance and satisfaction to human beings from the perspective of engineering. There is a fundamental problem for emotional humanoid robot manufacture. It is impossible to completely convey and conclude emotion by the means of mathematical model and algorithm because of the nonlinear of emotion. Nonetheless, it is no longer the biggest challenge for robot to make simple emotional interactions by analyzing mass of data and situation.
In a nursing home in Norway, robot Paro can make amiable reactions like stroking, making people who refuses to talk to anybody open his mouth and say hello. Statistics from old-age care institutions in Italy, Denmark and USA suggest that drug therapy to relieve anxiety is reduced in nursing home with Paro. With the appearance of more and more "loneliness" social problems, such as empty-nest elderly, autistic children and sickness, robot that can accompany human and make reaction will play an important role in the future. A British scientist predicts that in 2050 people would marry custom-made robot.
But there are also researchers pointing out that future unknown psychological problems may occur if the elderly believe that robot really has feelings and emotions. Sony's robot dog starts to be sold in 1999 and become very popular instantly. After many years' accompany when it reaches the abandoning time, many people chose to hold funeral for the robot dog. Actually, the satisfaction from robot's accompany is from imagination, which is not true human emotions. It is a way of self paralysis. The heroine in Black Mirror - the British TV play- finally throws her robot boyfriend off the barranca bravely, but it is still unknown whether human could wake up from imagination in the future.
Robot's accompany is not a way to solve the essence of the elderly loneliness as well as taking care of children. It is an exciting way at short run, but more serious ethical and moral problems as affection displacement and ignorance of social problem have to be taken into consideration.
In the year of 1989, American writer Norman Cousins once said that poetry is the unique attribute of human being as well as a key factor to prevent computer from being personified. Human should keep a going-back way in front of emotional humanoid robot when expect a smart future.
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