ROBOT ERA #1 - My report from a European Competition of Robotics in Italy
During the last week, I spent a morning in Peccioli, PISA (Italy) where took place a European Competition of Robotics. Three teams participated, two of them from Germany and one is a joint-venture between Italy and UK.
Have you ever seen a ROBOT working?
How do you think would be if for some jobs robot replaces human?
Let me immediately put the focus of this post: THE USE OF ROBOT IN WELFARE TECHNOLOGY that it means TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES AS SUPPORT FOR AGING.
Everyone of us (especially European) know which are the most common problems in our society... yes, apart vegans, those opposed to cannabis,those who don't know the crypto currencies... I'm kidding!
Increasing number of older people and the inability of public welfare policies to cope effectively to new demographic and social challenges are the frightening scene of our European countries.
Due of this there are several research groups in Europe that are working in order to design robots whose abilities are directed for helping older in simple home activities.
a robot, may be the first projected in the past
For public policies and welfare state could be better the projecting and implementing of robot which have the purpose to help elderly?
The previous question is still open and are growing the debates around!
a member of research group from Germany with their robot
members of another research group and their robot
THE RESULTS ARE AWESOME, BUT IT IS NOT SO SIMPLE!
I saw two robots working: a human voice recognized from the robot, suggests orders as go to the bookshelf or orange juice is on the kitchen table, and the robot moves following them. In the case of failure, or it remains stable, waiting a repetition of the command, or says I can’t reach the target.
As you imagine, there are obvious difficulties related to some more complex movements for the robots like walking backwards, turning around itself, and directing exactly the mechanical arm towards the object to bring, because of their cumbersome and not very agile form.
There is still a lot of work to do!
Robot can not totally takes the place of human, but in my own opinion, the real aim of this kind of technology must be the coexistence with people, and not their substitution.
It’s not a challenge among humans and robots!
All the photos are taken by me, with my Nikon camera.
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