According to foreign media reports, a new bionic robot developed by scientists has been dispatched to a nursing home in Minnesota, USA, to care for patients with early Alzheimer's disease. The robot, developed at the University of Minnesota and equipped with components to help individuals with emotional, physical and cognitive health, is described as the first robot to focus on caring for Alzheimer's patients. At present, the laboratory has designed a total of 25 bionic robots, which can dance, sing, play music, interact with humans, and even play simple games with humans.
Two of the robots are 0.66 meters and 1.32 meters tall, respectively. The designer, Professor Ashya, emphasized that they will help humans do the work of caring for elderly patients, rather than replacing them. Deploying the robots in nursing homes is more for cognitive and emotional support, and they are working to improve the mood of patients. , tell them jokes and stories. Robots also perform reminiscence therapy, in which they bring items that patients have used to nursing homes to help patients restore their memories.
Ten trillion market
Not only that, bionic robots can actually play a role in the severe situation of an aging society, but they can also face the harsh environmental conditions around them and do a lot of work for people. The combination of bionics and the application requirements in the field of robotics is an advanced stage and an inevitable trend in the development of robots.
The dynamics of bionic robots in the industry has also made bionic robots gradually become the focus of the public, especially in the “Tesla Humanoid Robot” released by Elon Musk, the quadruped robot “Tidan” released by Xiaomi, and the rideable robot released by Xiaopeng. After the quadruped robot horse, companies with various industry backgrounds participated, making the robot's bionic ecology more complete.
But at present, regardless of body perception and body control, bionic robot technology is still in the stage of "looking beautiful". Many people think that bionic robots are creating "gimmicks", although these robots can do a lot of things, But at best it can only be said to play a supporting role. The price starts at tens of thousands, and the functions are too "chicken rib" for most users in the consumer market. It seems that the biggest role is to help companies attract attention.
Even so, many giant companies still criticize giants for cultivating the field of bionic robots. In fact, the giants are very shrewd and see the market prospects of bionic robots, so they plan ahead to seize future opportunities. The current behavior of bionic robots is not meaningless to the current situation. According to China's "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", by 2030, the scale of China's AI core industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan, and the scale of related industries will exceed 1 trillion yuan. 10 trillion yuan. The bionic robot will play a major role in many fields such as military industry, industry and service.
Now the giants are deeply engaged in the field of bionic robots and accelerate the maturity of the bionic robot market. Although the current bionic robot products are still in their infancy, they cannot stop the general trend of bionic robots becoming the outlet. Although key products in the civilian field will not be implemented soon, as long as one person can eat "crabs", the entire industry will soon usher in hope. Even if it may take many years to wait until this day, with the joint promotion of all parties, the real "power" of bionic robots may gradually show, and "explode" to become a real outlet at some point in the future. So whoever masters the bionic robot market may be equivalent to mastering the future.