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丽莎老师讲机器人之伯克利、Deepmind前仆后继只为教会机器人做家务？欢迎收听丽莎老师讲机器人，想要孩子参加机器人竞赛、创意编程、创客竞赛的辅导，找丽莎老师！欢迎添加微信号：153 5359 2068，或搜索微信公众号：我最爱机器人。伯克利就传出新进展，他们教机器人做家务的能力更上一层楼了。伯克利介绍了他们的研究人员是如何让机器学会读懂人类的潜台词或未尽之意，而不是傻乎乎地按照字面意思或者奖励系统来机械地运动。举个例子，当餐桌机器人上菜时，它会知道躲避酒柜，或者在停电等紧急情况下停止端盘子，而不是为了尽可能多地得到奖赏（端一个盘子系统会提供一个奖励），而马不停蹄地送盘子。甚至还可能直接把盘子打碎，这样就可以获得更多的（奖励）了……第一反应是机器人可真笨啊，第二反应是伯克利教机器人做家务的执念也未免太深了吧！之前还开发过引擎教机器人铺床单、叠衣服、收拾桌面，总之，非要让机器人掺和家务这件事不可。想要挑战家务技能的除了伯克利，还有Deepmind。去年2月，Deepmind就提出了一种新的学习范式“计划辅助控制SAC-X”，来帮助机器人学会整理桌子和堆叠衣物。前不久佐治亚理工学院的研究人员，也发表了新的强化学习算法，可以教会机器人穿衣服。为什么这么多AI巨头不约而同地走上了家务培训的道路？未来我们能拥有《底特律》中卡拉那样温柔能干的家政机器人吗？首先我们来看看，在这么多人类学霸、AI巨头的助攻下，机器人都学会了哪些家务小技能。先来说说“家政狂魔”伯克利。早在去年，我们就解读过伯克利的通用预测模型，它可以帮助机器人自主学习和掌握很多通用基础技能，在此基础上学习和预测主人的意图和任务的共性，从而可以举一反三执行广泛的任务类别，成长为一个优秀的“家务多面手”。比如折叠短裤毛巾、挪移苹果、整理桌面等等。伯克利还推出了一个深度学习模型Dex-NET，基于角点检测和抓取策略，让机器人完成铺床单这一艰巨任务。最值得一提的是新的研究成果“偏好优化模型”。机器人不仅能完成通用任务，而且还能够推断出更优解，适应带有隐藏条件的复杂现实环境。比如在常规的“actor-critic”增强学习反馈机制中，主人要求机器人导航前往紫色的门，那么机器人就会选择最短路径（传统意义上的最优解），而忽略这么做会打碎路上的花瓶。因为机器人无法获知，主人是否关心花瓶会不会被打碎。但如果机器人能自己模拟和演练过去发生过的行为轨迹，比如主人一直都绕着花瓶走，说明她是重视花瓶的完整状态的，由此推断出绕过花瓶是最有可能获得奖励、应该积极追求的目标。机器人拥有洞察隐藏条件的能力，意味着它们可以从一种状态中学习人类的偏好，系统无需事无巨细地列出所有现实环境中的因果联系和条件，奖励函数也不再是线性机械的，机器人可以自主模拟和学习过去的经验，判断和应对未知的动态环境。对于做家务这个任务来说，判断主人的喜好来进行作业，可以说是必杀技了。与伯克利相比，Deepmind其实对医疗这种高精尖任务更感兴趣。但这并不妨碍它在家政领域发光发热。Deepmind的“计划辅助控制SAC-X”模型，就旨在帮助机器人学会探索和掌握家务方面的基本技能。就像婴儿在爬行和走路之前必须发展出协调和平衡能力一样，SAC-X也有助于帮助机器掌握几种核心的视觉-运动技能。比如运用模拟手臂，按照正确的顺序，即使没有见过这各任务，也能从零开始学习，并按要求顺利地把物体举起来。这样就能在无需额外编程的前提下，完成整理桌面这样的复杂任务。此外，乔治亚理工学院将布料引入学习框架，教机器人学会穿衣服的论文也非常别出心裁。因为衣服的布料材质各不相同，穿衣服的动作也无法遵循特定的运动轨迹，会和布料产生复杂的交互变化，机器人必须不断练习，对各个子任务（拽起边缘、扯平衣角等）进行模拟和优化，在不断变化的环境条件中学习到稳定的创意控制策略，最终完成穿不同衣服的任务目标。无论衬衫、套头毛衣，还是外套，都是妥妥滴！听起来，好像大部分家务活儿机器人都可以驾驭嘛，但现实中能够见到的家务机器人，干起活来依然是一副又慢又笨的蠢样子。比如由伯克利设计、Rethink Robotics公司开发的家庭助手，叠一个毛巾就要15分钟；而加州 FoldiMate推出的智能洗叠机器，可以按照程序把衣服叠成需要的方块，但需要人手动放置在展台上，并没有节省多少人力，售价还高达980美金（约7000块人民币）……嗯，还是自己动手丰衣足食吧。不是比人慢，就是比人贵，靠机器人做家务性价比实在是太低了。那么，既然不能真的帮人类做家务，教机器人学习这些技能，究竟有何意义？为什么是做家务，去工厂搬砖不行吗？干嘛非要跟家务活儿较劲呢？原因恐怕在于，家政任务提供了一个从零开始学习复杂控制任务的训练环境，这对通用机器智能来说至关重要。首先，家政任务的真实性和多样性，有助于智能体学会如何用最少的先验知识来解决复杂问题。先验知识指的是一种不依赖于经验总结（类似编写好的程序，从结果推导过程）的一种元能力，通过观察学会推理和判断。而机器人就没有这种“天生的”知识，但显然我们也不可能将机器人服务的每个家庭、每个可能任务都进行预先编程，这时，训练机器人的通用能力就显得尤为关键了。尽管机器永远不可能拥有像人一样的先验能力和通用性，在各个学科、各个工作岗位都能表现差不多。但在很多垂直领域，比如：工业、家务、语言等，先验能力强的机器智能体就可以低成本、高适应性、灵活地完成工作任务，解决那些现在只有人才能解决的问题。另外，家政任务是一个集视觉、触觉、运动、关节控制等为一体的任务，综合性很强，这是其他碎片应用不具备的环境，对训练多元功能协作的智能体很有帮助。比如：伯克利教机器人从垃圾桶中拾取原本看不见的物体，就需要通过摄像头采集深度图像，形成模拟数据集，再利用该数据集训练质量卷积神经网络（GQ-CNN），对物体进行图像分割，确定抓取尝试成功的可能性，最后形成抓取成功概率最高的策略，再对夹持器关节进行实时精密控制，才能最终完成这一操作。一次训练，多种收获。更重要的是，家务的操作环境比起工业机器人、电子游戏等，都更加松散，充满变化，任务的主观预期和隐藏含义更难界定和预测，无形中加大了训练难度。与此同时，家政任务的训练成本也比较低，也更容易为大众所理解，社会效益和营销价值双丰收。相比对机器狗拳打脚踢、在《Dota》中血虐真人玩家，让机器做做家务简直堪称是最政治正确、价廉物美的训练方式了。在家政机器人背后，实际隐含的是一种智能体创生的本质逻辑：在复杂的环境中自己探索出解决随机和非结构化问题的合理方案，可以安全地与环境交互，同时高效地完成任务。具体一点说，训练家政机器人，主要有一下三个方面的好处：一是培养更具有通用智能的机器人，在不需要过多指导的前提下，执行一系列任务，提高机器自动化的安全性和工作效率。二是有助于开发用于分层规划、感知和推理的算法，可以帮助自动驾驶、工业自动化、智能物联网等等领域解决应用问题；三是推动零样本学习、少样本学习等技术的进步。在缺乏外部奖励信号的情况下，算法也能很好地推理出行为的意图，可以显著提升电商、内容产品推荐系统的使用体验。这样，大家恐怕就不难理解，为什家务会成为通用智能体成长道路上无法绕过的“垫脚石”了。

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  Eudemonia is a word for deriving pleasure from doing mundane things such as the laundry.  Finally, modern technology has produced a machine that can help, with the laundry that is. The Foldimate, which just debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, folds your clothes for you.  Well, this is sure to make laundry issues less pressing:)  All you have to do is feed your clothes into a slot on the machine, and the Foldimate does the rest, automatically folding your clothes and delivering them neatly stacked and ready to put away.  What’s a word for a person who wears wrinkled clothes? A Scobberlotcher! The manufacturer says the FoldiMate machine should be available to consumers within the United States by late 2019.  In laundry speak, what’s the opposite of wrinkly?  Why that would be Irony:)

For a lot of people, the absolute worst part of doing the laundry is when it comes time to fold it. The washer and dryer do the important part for them, but when it needs to be folded, they just haphazardly shove it around and wind up with a lot of wrinkled clothes. We all have that one friend with a clothes chair or a decorated treadmill! We were very happy to talk to Gal Rozov who is the founder and CEO of FoldiMate, a fascinating robotic laundry folder. FoldiMate is a new concept to help make a bothersome task for some people a pleasure. Gal told us that even his children fight over who gets to fold clothes! It is mainly designed for shirts, towels, and pillowcases. It is able to fold neatly and accurately up to 25 items in 5 minutes. The execution of this is very easy. You simply grab the item by the shoulders, facing you and clip it onto two uniquely designed clips and it automatically pulls the item into the machine. While that is happening, you put on the next item after it opens up again.The appliance plugs into a standard 110-volt outlet so that makes it very versatile. The possibilities for placement are endless in your home, depending on your space limitations and your work habits. Some folks like to put them in the laundry area while others want it in their bedroom. It is also incredibly energy-efficient. He is also thinking about the possibility of using them in laundromats for their customers to experience.While last year they were in a prototype mode and this year they were extremely honored to receive the Best of Show Award at CES for 2019 from Business Insider. The FoldiMate is planned for public release in late 2019. The price point is uncertain at this time but they are hoping for around the $1000. range. For more information go to their website.Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more.

For a lot of people, the absolute worst part of doing the laundry is when it comes time to fold it. The washer and dryer do the important part for them, but when it needs to be folded, they just haphazardly shove it around and wind up with a lot of wrinkled clothes. We all … Continue reading FoldiMate makes your laundry day great and gives you back your time → The post FoldiMate makes your laundry day great and gives you back your time appeared first on Tech Podcast Network.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     Lots of households have robotic vacuums whirring around floors helping to clean up.     How about a robotic device that can fold your laundry.   FoldiMate is the name of a company …based in Israel….that is turning the idea...

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination Reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination Reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Is it creepy or just love? That is the question when it comes to the Netflix show YOU. When it comes to breaking world records, not all of them are entertaining! We learned that the hard way when Damnit Maurie was eating one kernel of corn at a time. Roz & Mocha interview the inventor of the Foldimate a machine that folds your clothes for you! Plus we'll play a round of Pinched!

We've just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we'll talk about biggest announcements from the show including from LG, Samsung and Hisense. And we’ll also take you through the coolest and quirkiest smart devices we discovered in the halls at CES including a robot that can fold clothes, an airbag for cyclists, the Bell Nexus passenger drone, devices to stop you snore and get a better night's sleep, the world's first foldable phone, the Ecovacs robot air purifier, Telstra’s 5G announcement and we wrap it up with the Tech Guide Help Desk.

More from CES with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Dami Lee, and Dan Seifert who talk through the ongoing developments in voice assistant technology and the continuing rivalry between Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa. They also discuss a range of gadgets from the showroom floor such as Alienware's Area51m laptop to a laundry-folding robot as well as Verizon’s shots fired at AT&T over their 5G claim. 2:05 - Tim Cook says Apple will “announce new services this year” 8:02 - Google’s plan to take on Alexa: new features, new devices, and a Trojan horse 9:25 - We finally heard Google Assistant work on Sonos speakers 12:01 - Google Assistant’s new interpreter mode can translate conversations — but it’s not magic 15:06 - Google Assistant is coming for your car with new hands-free voice control from Anker and JBL 27:05 - Foldimate’s laundry-folding machine actually works now 31:24 - Wacom’s $649 Cintiq 16 bridges the gap between hobbyists and pros 38:16 - BOCCO emo 42:05 - The Alienware Area-51m is a full-fledged desktop disguised as a laptop 42:23 - Lenovo’s new Yoga S940 is all about its impressive display 49:12 - Verizon says it won’t launch fake 5G icons like AT&T did Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Techstination interview: CES fun: FoldiMate's clothes folding robot: CEO Gal Rozov

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Join us this week as we catch up on some of the biggest headlines from the 51st Anniversary of CES and our favorite innovations that came out of it. While it  looked a lot like a Google Home vs. Alexa battle, there were lots of interesting trends we are excited to see come to life soon. Links discussed in this episode: - Ready Player One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2fhOY0nE - Power Glove is SO BAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TscjsNMvnDg - Teslasuit: http://bit.ly/2En7qXW - Samsung's The Wall: http://bit.ly/2BF1AxX - Lishtot TestDrop: https://www.lishtot.com/index.html - Cape Town's Water Crisis: http://time.com/5103259/cape-town-water-crisis/ - Conversational Commerce (CapGemini): http://bit.ly/2E2p4Cq - Somnox Pillow: https://www.somnox.nl/ - Foldimate: https://foldimate.com/ - Kohler Numi Toilet: http://bit.ly/2njCmRF       --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cqpod/support

CES 2018: Laundry folding robot, bigger and rollable TVs, and Nokia sleep    In this episode, we take a look at CES 2018, the biggest tech show in the world. Hear about autonomous cars, taxis, Samsung’s Wall TV, Razar’s laptop dock and FoldiMate’s laundry folding robot and more.  Show Notes:  Fisker’s new luxury EMotion electric sedan is coming in 2020 with futuristic butterfly doors that open upwards at an angle.   Bell Helicopter is looking to bring us autonomous air taxis. Uber is partnering with Bell to help develop the project for launch sometime in the 2020s.  Samsung’s "The Wall" 4K TV is one of the largest (if not the biggest) TVs unveiled at CES 2018.   LG is showing off its eye-popping 65-inch rollable 4K OLED TV.   50-qubit quantum computer that is capable of processing more calculations and could be a game-changer for AI and machine-learning.  FoldiMate laundry folding robot  Nokia has announced the Nokia Sleep, a bed sensor that sits under your mattress to provide you with data while you sleep  Fingerprint sensor under the display.   Tech Bytes:   Scientists at Harvard University recently unveiled a metalens that has the potential to shrink the size of any device that uses a camera while at the same time improving performance.  While traditional lenses are made from glass, metalenses use a flat surface peppered with nanostructures to focus light. One problem with metalenses has been their inability to focus the full spectrum of light.  That's not the case anymore, however, as a team at Harvard's Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a metalens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light -- including white light -- at a focal point, with high resolution.  This means that lens will be thinner making future phones and other devices much thinner.   One of America's largest retirement villages will have a fleet of self-driving taxis introduced next year.  US firm Voyage said it will start rolling out the service at The Villages, Florida which is home to 125,000 senior residents.  It said the scheme, spanning 750 miles of road, would be the "largest by area size" in the world.    Facebook is testing a new feature in its app where it will have city-specific local news, events and announcements available on its platform.  The test is currently live for a new section called 'Today In' in six US cities.    

Wait, what? Yeah, this week a company called SuperMeat announced that it raised $3 million to create chicken in a lab. It requires real chicken cells, Petrie dishes probably and some patience. The benefits for fake (fake real?) chicken are numerous, not the least of which it's better for the environment. But we wonder how it will taste. Like chicken? Like fake chicken? In the lead-up to CES 2018, the topic of robots that fold laundry is on our minds. Apparently it's a thing and it costs a lot of money. Like, a lot of money. Two companies, FoldiMate and Seven Dreamers (which is working with Panasonic) don't want you to have to fold your clean clothes, which is arguably not the worst part of doing laundry (at least according to Henry). And finally, Volkswagen and Hyundai announced that, by 2021, they intend to have autonomous taxi fleets on the roads. Autonomous cars are coming, so why not start with taxis? The only thing better would be autonomous pizza-delivery vehicles. Our guest this week is Ryan Rzepecki, CEO of Social Bicycles, the startup behind Jump, a dockless, electric bike-sharing startup. Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet Producer: Christopher Gates Executive Producer: Yashad Kulkarni

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