The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
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尽管科技公司展示的人形机器人能完成杂技和家务，但演示与在现实世界中可靠重复执行任务之间仍有显著差距。由于人类倾向于将人形物体拟人化，这类视频尤其容易引发误导性假设。专家指出，人们会自然推断像人的机器人能像人一样做所有事，而事实并非如此，部分初创公司正利用这一点来筹集资金。
It may appear that humanoid robots capable of handling any task have almost arrived—especially when tech companies showcase them performing acrobatic feats or handling household chores. But there is still a significant gap between these robot demonstrations and proving that the same robots can reliably and repeatedly manage such tasks in the real world.
The latest wave of robot videos can be particularly tricky, given the human tendency to anthropomorphize objects with a humanoid figure. A robot arm doing a dance move may simply seem “cool,” but a humanoid robot doing the same dance move can trigger more misleading assumptions, said Jonathan Hurst, cofounder of Agility Robotics and a robotics researcher at Oregon State University.
“People automatically extrapolate and assume that the robot that looks like a person can do all the things that a person who can dance could do—which is not true,” Hurst told Ars. “But a lot of the startup companies do kind of prey on that for being able to raise a lot of money.”
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