The courier robot not Tourismus Wolf | 19.05.2020
The pandemic accelerated the pace of robotics to significantly reduce contacts between people. Is humanity facing serious job cuts in the future. Including the most inexpensive,
unskilled jobs that help people who have lost more prestigious job though as-that to survive in crisis situations. It is including about the couriers.
In the current era of coronavirus specialty, but rather low-skilled courier work, were still in demand. However, with this, saving for many positions, people are starting
gradually replace the robotic deliverymen. Yet mechanical carriers operate in restricted areas of the software development companies and organizations created the conditions for the smooth
movement of unmanned delivery vehicles. Robo-trucks and ro-containers have already successfully “run in” in all senses of the word, at California hospital, which was converted
one of the local stadiums. And the day when robotic delivery, at least within the framework of specialized organizations will become the mainstream is not far off. What, then, is to hope
people who lose their current position, which is artificial intelligence, and the last hope in the form of a backup operation of the courier?
Developers offer output in the form of the position of the teleoperator, controlling the robot actions of the delivery person. Of course here there is no hint of charity. Net settlement. The fact that robots,
going out in the world that was created by ordinary people and, first of all, for the same ordinary people, I feel here almost like people with disabilities. For the robot, almost as
for wheelchair users, there’s a lot konoplevodami obstacles and unforeseen situations. And life experience to young robots-couriers yet clearly not enough.
The developers found a solution in the form of Manager-operator, which needs to quickly address emerging from the robot-courier problem. To do this, create convenient interfaces that allow either approve one of the
solutions, which cannot alone come the robot (roughly speaking – to turn right or left), or switch to manual mode and conduct of delivery on the route before
the moment when he will once again be able to show independence.
One such company is an American developer Postmates. She is originally all from the same Motherland silicone artificially-intelligent innovation – California. Since 2011, Postmates deals
solutions for logistics. And today is preparing their own versions of the easy replicable workstations for cameramen. In line with the plans of the developer of this will help easily and most importantly economically
to solve the most pressing problems of today robots suppliers, including those related to the passage of the last few dozen meters to the destination. Given that people will be able
to control the robots from home, the solution is suitable for the current and subsequent quarantines.
To create effective camera operating decisions Postmates (still positioning itself as a startup) has attracted a younger partner – a software company Phantom Auto. This firm was
formed in 2017, and (blowing time) specializiruetsya just on camera operating systems.
Thanks to the cooperation of these companies hope to strengthen its position in actively developing the profile segments – organization, robot logistics in warehouses and inside individual organizations. Before
developers are counting on the imminent breakthrough in the field of robotic taxis and mass commissioning of an unmanned cargo transport, but the commissioning of such infrastructure
slowed down even before the pandemic, confronted with difficulties in the form of risk of physical harm to people and property and a lack of legal regulation of such situations.
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