Page 7 - CSA Speaker Bulletin September 2017

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ROBOTICS AND AI

press over generalizes the capabilities who are smart and brave enough
of AI systems, as do some AI will see new business models and
researchers, substituting "in principle" will generate new companies or
arguments for accurate estimations of company divisions that change the
practicality. way large portions of our physical
infrastructure and supply chain works.
"Artificial Intelligence is Those will be the new crop of super
going to help us, but it is companies which may well come out
not the panacea for all the of geographies that are different from
increase in automation our where recent generations of super
society will demand over growth companies have arisen. n
the next two decades."

Even allowing as yet unseen advances
in true spatial perception through
machine learning, we are still a long,
long way from getting either physical
robot capabilities, or the control
algorithms that will be necessary to
operate them, so that our robots will
have the dexterity needed for large
portions of manufacturing, for packing
and delivering goods to end users, or
for the maintenance, or even rewiring,
of our vast installed base of traditional
industrial and service equipment.

So we have challenges ahead. AI Former MIT Professor Rodney
is going to help us, but it is not Brooks studies and engineers
the panacea for all the increase in robot intelligence. He is the
automation our society will demand co-founder of iRobot, which
over the next two decades. Those has sold more than 12 million
home robots worldwide, as
well as being founder and
CTO of Rethink Robotics,
whose mission is to apply
advanced robotic intelligence
to manufacturing and
physical labour.

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