Meta Friday announced PartA new program for examining the human-robot interaction (HRI). Research in particular focuses on how people and robots could work together in the home environment. This includes secular tasks such as cleaning, cooking and recording grocery deliveries.
The automated housework is a decades of dream that is most clearly captured by The Jetson Rosie. The robot girls made their debut about Prime Time television more than 60 years ago, but is still a popular touchstone when it comes to discussing the potential of highly developed machines, part of the load of household work.
So far, however, only the robot vacuum has made considerable progress on the market. There are numerous reasons why no other home robots cracked the mainstream, including price, reliability and limited functionality. It is certainly not From the lack of experimentsIt is also not due to the lack of interest of the consumer. It is only that no other robot has reached the brand for both the costs and the feature set.
It is likely that improved collaboration with the people they belong will require improved collaboration. It is unlikely that the first wave of home robots will do the tasks on its own. Even a good robot vacuum needs help from time to time. Meta positions Partnr as a benchmark and as a data record to determine how people and robots work together to do things around the house.
“Our benchmark consists of 100,000 tasks, including homework such as cleanup and toys,” Meta writes. “We also publish the PartnR data record, which consists of human demonstrations of the PartnR tasks in the simulation that can be used for training body -KI models.”
The simulation has become an increasingly useful instrument for providing robots, so that companies can test in seconds, which could otherwise take hours or days in the real world. However, Meta says that it was also successful to provide the PartnR model outside the simulation. Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has already been used for testing. Meta has also developed a mixed reality interface that offers a visual representation of the robot’s decision -making processes.
“The potential for innovation and development in the field of cooperation between people and robot is great,” adds Meta. “With partnr we want to reinterpret robots as future partners and not just as agents and jump research in this exciting area.”
Retirement Keeping great potential for the category. Labradors automated serving carsFor example, offers insights into a way of how technology put older people who continue to live independently. However, many progress in the variety -Meta aims to address before such systems receive the mainstream acceptance.
Humanoids are another fascinating option that has imagined in recent years. Most companies behind these two -betal robots predict a future in which they will finally help at home. However, pricing has to decrease considerably, and reliability must improve by jumping and limited. This is a large part of the reason why most manufacturers first want to satisfy company needs.
With the right scaling and progress in the AI, you can imagine a world in which humanoid robots go into tasks of the all -purpose so that they can help both in the factory and at home. A large springboard for this place requires solid progress in working between people and robot. Meta, the robotics examined in the middle of its broader AI research, hopes that partnr can help them get there.
