We were all supposed to live in futuristic plastic houses, float around in flying cars, and have personal
robot assistants make us martinis.
Not exact matches
While CIMON may be the smartest digital
assistant aboard the ISS, it won't be the first human - like
robot to
make an appearance in space.
Take, e.g., liability questions: what if the
robot lawyer
makes a mistake, or if your virtual legal
assistant sends out the wrong information?
Google today opened the software development kit (SDK) of its Google
Assistant, allowing tinkerers and companies
making devices to incorporate Google
Assistant into products like smart speakers, cars, or
robots.
To showcase to the new feature, Google apparently
made a laundry sorting
robot and beer ordering system, both of which will be on - hand at the company's
Assistant Fun House in Austin.
It can detect altitude, temperature, humidity, and motion, but I wasn't ready for building
robots or weather balloons just yet, so I stuck to
making voice
assistants.
The
assistant can even adapt to errors
made by the user, such as messing up flight dates, and modify the searches — after all, it's a
robot meant to help you, so it'll have patience.
A few apartments allow tenants to use their phones or voice -
assistant software in order to slide out hidden beds that save space, see what's inside their refrigerator before opening it,
make coffee, and even benefit from mechanized storage that uses
robots to transport bins.
While many real estate professionals see
robots as helpful
assistants who can
make showing homes, maintaining buildings, and connecting with prospects easier, economists aren't as upbeat about the impact of artificial intelligence on business life.