Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

翻译人员: Wei Wu 校对人员: Kaiqi Zhang

So just by a show of hands, how many of you all have a robot at home?

家里有机器人的观众请举下手～

Not very many of you.

嗯，不算太多。

Okay. And actually of those hands,

好。这些举手的观众中，

if you don't include Roomba how many of you have a robot at home?

哪些人家里的机器人不是扫地机器人？

So a couple.

寥寥无几。

That's okay.

That's the problem that we're trying to solve at Romotive --

谢谢，可以放下来了。

这就是我们 Romotive 团队——我和另外20个怪才——

that I and the other 20 nerds at Romotive are obsessed with solving.

想要解决的问题，而我们真的乐在其中。

So we really want to build a robot that anyone can use,

我们的目标是造出来一种谁都用得了的机器人，

whether you're eight or 80.

不管你是8岁还是80岁。

And as it turns out, that's a really hard problem,

我们发现，这确实是一个很难的问题，

because you have to build a small, portable robot

因为这不仅要求你构造出来的机器人小巧、轻便，

that's not only really affordable,

成本控制在可接受的水平，

but it has to be something

还要求你做出来的机器人

that people actually want to take home and have around their kids.

足够有趣，使得人们愿意把它们带回家，带给孩子。

This robot can't be creepy or uncanny.

这个机器人样子不能太丑陋。

He should be friendly and cute.

他应该是很萌、很可爱的。

So meet Romo.

他就是 Romo。

Romo's a robot that uses a device you already know and love --

Romo 机器人使用你已经熟知并喜欢的设备——

your iPhone -- as his brain.

你的 iPhone —— 作为他的大脑。

And by leveraging the power of the iPhone's processor,

利用 iPhone 的处理器和传感器，

we can create a robot that is wi-fi enabled

我们只花了大概150美元就做出来

and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks,

一台带有WIFI和计算机视觉功能的机器人，

which is about one percent of what these kinds of robots have cost in the past.

价格只有过去类似机器人的造价的百分之一。

When Romo wakes up, he's in creature mode.

现在 Romo 醒了，他现在处在自主模式。

So he's actually using the video camera on the device to follow my face.

他通过手机上的摄像头识别和跟踪我的脸。

If I duck down, he'll follow me.

如果我弯下腰，他也会跟着我转。

He's wary, so he'll keep his eyes on me.

他有些担心，所以他的视线一直没有离开我。

If I come over here, he'll turn to follow me.

如果我来这边，他也会跟我跑。

If I come over here -- (Laughs)

如果我来这边——（笑声）

He's smart.

他很聪明。

And if I get too close to him,

如果我靠他太近，

he gets scared just like any other creature.

他会像其它小动物一样感到害怕，

So in a lot of ways, Romo is like a pet that has a mind of his own.

在很多方面，Romo 跟你的宠物差不多，有自己的意识。

Thanks, little guy.

谢谢，小家伙。

(Sneezing sound)

（打喷嚏的声音）

Bless you.

保重啊。

And if I want to explore the world -- uh-oh, Romo's tired --

如果我想要探索这个世界——啊哈，Romo 累了——

if I want to explore the world with Romo,

如果我想通过 Romo 探索这个世界，

I can actually connect him from any other iOS device.

我可以通过别的 iOS 设备来连接 Romo。

So here's the iPad.

比如这个 iPad。

And Romo will actually stream video to this device.

Romo 可以将视频流转接到这台设备上。

So I can see everything that Romo sees,

所以现在我能看到 Romo 看到的一切，

and I get a robot's-eye-view of the world.

通过机器人的视角看世界。

Now this is a free app on the App Store,

我们在 App Store 上放了一个免费 App，

so if any of you guys had this app on your phones,

如果你们在自己的手机上安装了这个 App

we could literally right now share control of the robot and play games together.

我们现在就可以一起控制这个机器人，还可以一起玩游戏。

So I'll show you really quickly,

让我来快速演示一下，

Romo actually -- he's streaming video,

Romo 现在正在传送视频图像，

so you can see me and the entire TED audience.

你可以看到我和整个观众席。

If I get in front of Romo here.

如果你站在 Romo 面前。

And if I want to control him, I can just drive.

如果我想要控制 Romo，我点几个按钮就可以了。

So I can drive him around,

我可以让他来回的移动，

and I can take pictures of you.

我还可以让 Romo 拍照。

I've always wanted a picture of a 1,500-person TED audience.

我很想要拍一张有1500位TED观众的照片。

So I'll snap a picture.

喀嚓！拍好了。

And in the same way that you scroll through content on an iPad,

同样的方式，你可以在 iPad 上来回的滚动画面，

I can actually adjust the angle of the camera on the device.

我可以调整设备上的摄像头的角度。

So there are all of you through Romo's eyes.

这就是通过Romo 的眼睛看到的你们的样子。

And finally, because Romo is an extension of me,

最后，Romo 作为我的一个延伸，

I can express myself through his emotions.

我可以依照我的心情来改变他的表情。

So I can go in and I can say let's make Romo excited.

所以我可以登录进来，然后让 Romo 作出兴奋的表情。

But the most important thing about Romo

我们创造 Romo 最最重要的一个考虑

is that we wanted to create something that was literally completely intuitive.

就是他的操作一定要非常非常的直观。

You do not have to teach someone how to drive Romo.

任何人都应该不需要人教就会驾驶 Romo。

In fact, who would like to drive a robot?

现在，谁愿意现场试一下？

Okay. Awesome.

好的，酷。

Here you go.

给你。

Thank you, Scott.

谢谢，Scott。

And even cooler, you actually don't have to be

更酷的是，即使你跟 Romo 相隔两地，

in the same geographic location as the robot to control him.

你也可以毫无障碍的控制他。

So he actually streams two-way audio and video

实际上，他可以在两台智能设备之间（如手机和平板电脑）

between any two smart devices.

双向的传送视频和音频信号，

So you can log in through the browser,

比如你可以通过浏览器登录 Romo，

and it's kind of like Skype on wheels.

这个时候他就像是带轮子的 Skype 电话一样。

So we were talking before about telepresence,

我们刚才讨论过远程视觉呈现（telepresence）

and this is a really cool example.

这就是非常酷的例子。

You can imagine an eight-year-old girl, for example, who has an iPhone,

想象一下一个8岁的小姑娘，有一个 iPhone，

and her mom buys her a robot.

她的妈妈给她买了一个 Romo 机器人。

That girl can take her iPhone, put it on the robot,

小姑娘可以把她的 iPhone 插到机器人上，

send an email to Grandma, who lives on the other side of the country.

给她住在很远的地方的外婆发封电子邮件。

Grandma can log into that robot and play hide-and-go-seek with her granddaughter

外婆可以登录进入 Romo，跟孙女玩躲猫猫的游戏，

for fifteen minutes every single night,

可以每天晚上都玩15分钟，

when otherwise she might only be able to get to see her granddaughter once or twice a year.

如果没有 Romo，她可能一年只有一两次机会见到自己的乖孙女。

Thanks, Scott.

谢谢你，Scott。

(Applause)

（掌声）

So those are a couple of the really cool things that Romo can do today.

所以，Romo 现在已经可以做一些很酷的事情了。

But I just want to finish by talking about something that we're working on in the future.

最后我想要分享一下我们未来的工作目标。

This is actually something that one of our engineers, Dom, built in a weekend.

这实际上是我们的工程师之一 Dom 在一个周末做出来的。

It's built on top of a Google open framework called Blockly.

它基于 Google 的一个称为 Blockly 的开源框架构建。

This allows you to drag and drop these blocks of semantic code

它允许你以拖拽代码块的方式

and create any behavior for this robot you want.

创造出任何你想要的机器人的行为。

You do not have to know how to code to create a behavior for Romo.

你不需要知道如何针对 Romo 编程。

And you can actually simulate that behavior in the browser,

你要做的就是在浏览器中模拟你想要的行为，

which is what you see Romo doing on the left.

就是现在 Romo 在屏幕左边做的那样。

And then if you have something you like,

然后如果你想的话，

you can download it onto your robot and execute it in real life,

你可以把代码下载到你的机器人中，在真实环境中执行

run the program in real life.

在现实环境中运行程序。

And then if you have something you're proud of,

如果这些程序让你很自豪，

you can share it with every other person who owns a robot in the world.

你可以向全世界所有有这款机器人的玩家分享你的代码。

So all of these wi-fi–enabled robots actually learn from each other.

所以，这种带WIFI连接的机器人实际上是可以相互学习的。

The reason we're so focused on building robots that everyone can train

我们尽最大努力做到让任何人都可以训练机器人，是因为

is that we think the most compelling use cases in personal robotics are personal.

我们认为个人机器人最吸引人的地方就是个性化。

They change from person to person.

每个人对机器人的需求都是不同的。

So we think that if you're going to have a robot in your home,

我们认为，如果你打算买台机器人放在家里，

that robot ought to be a manifestation of your own imagination.

这个机器人应该是你自己想象力的体现。

So I wish that I could tell you what the future of personal robotics looks like.

我希望我能够向你描述未来的个人机器人会是什么样子。

To be honest, I have no idea.

但是老实说，我也不知道。

But what we do know is that it isn't 10 years or 10 billion dollars

但是我们知道这不会是那种很大的类人机器人，

or a large humanoid robot away.

或是需要花10年时间和100亿造出来的机器人。

The future of personal robotics is happening today,

未来的个人机器人会顺着当前的研究方向发展，

and it's going to depend on small, agile robots like Romo

即依赖于你自己的创造力，去操纵

and the creativity of people like yourselves.

像 Romo 这样小巧灵活的机器人。

So we can't wait to get you all robots,

我们已经等不及让你们人手一个机器人，

and we can't wait to see what you build.

等不及看到你们的想象力了。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）