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Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn't just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company's "Oshbot" robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product's location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. "We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us," said Breazeal.
If you enjoy canoeing(皮划艇运动), you can paddle for free in Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Norway, but you also have to be willing to pick up trash.
(organize) by Greenkayak, free trips in the group's two-person kayaks(皮艇) are offered in return for collecting waste from water surface. The project began in Denmark in April, 2017. With the help of a thousand kayak (voluntary), three tons of trash (collect) from Copenhagen harbor that year. You can easily book a kayak for the time being works for you. Life jackets and equipment—like a paddle, a waste picker, a bucket for the trash— (provide): just bring yourself. You can have two hours of free kayak time.
Greenkayak believes that kayaks are highly effective at collecting waste because they can get close to areas that are hard (reach).
"In Denmark, people love to hang out on canals, but (fortunate) they see waste (float) by," one of Greenkayak's co-founders speaks of the program's origin. "You can't take your shirt off and jump in. However, you can get in on the Greenkayak and make difference."
If you want to take advantage the free kayak, tour a city from its river and do your part to control water pollution.
