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

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Kwok Ping Lau Reviewer: Ga-Wai Lau

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

如果你屋企有機械人嘅，就請舉高手

Not very many of you.

唔係好多人

Okay. And actually of those hands,

好。咁嗰啲舉咗手嘅

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

如果唔計 Roomba 有幾多人屋企係有機械人嘅？

So a couple.

都有幾個

That's okay.

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

冇問題

呢個就係我哋 Romotive 要解決嘅問題

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

亦係我同廿位喺 Romotive 嘅發燒友 成日想解決嘅

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

我哋好想整到一個人人都用得嘅機械人

whether you're eight or 80.

無論你係八歲或者八十歲都用得

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

結果就係，原來呢個係非常困難嘅問題

because you have to build a small, portable robot

因為你必須要建造出

一個細到可以隨身攜帶 價錢又實惠嘅機械人

that's not only really affordable,

but it has to be something

但佢必須要令家長 想將佢帶返屋企同埋畀小朋友用

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

This robot can't be creepy or uncanny.

呢個機械人嘅樣唔可以好得人驚 同埋唔可以唔自然

He should be friendly and cute.

佢應該要有親切感同埋好得意嘅

So meet Romo.

所以有請 Romo

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

Romo 淨係需要 一個大家都識嘅裝置

your iPhone -- as his brain.

即係你嘅 iPhone——控制

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

利用 iPhone 處理器嘅能力

we can create a robot that is wi-fi enabled

我哋就可以用 150 蚊美金

嚟做出一個可以用無線 同埋識得分析圖像嘅機械人

and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks,

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

呢個價錢大概係 呢種機械人以前成本嘅 1%

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

當 Romo 醒咗之後，佢會進入生物狀態

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

亦即係話佢係用攝影機嚟捕捉我塊臉

If I duck down, he'll follow me.

如果我踎低，佢會跟住我

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

佢好著緊，所以佢會望實我

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

如果我過嚟呢度，佢會轉過嚟跟住我

If I come over here -- (Laughs)

如果我嚟呢度（笑聲）

He's smart.

佢好精靈

And if I get too close to him,

跟住，如果我太近佢

he gets scared just like any other creature.

佢就會好似其他動物咁嚇襯

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

喺好多方面，Romo 好似寵物咁 有自己嘅思想

Thanks, little guy.

唔該你，機械人

(Sneezing sound)

（打咳嚏）

Bless you.

冇事嗎？

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

然後如果我想去探索世界 ——噢，Romo 攰啦

if I want to explore the world with Romo,

咁如果我想同 Romo 一齊探索世界嘅話

I can actually connect him from any other iOS device.

我可以直接將佢同任何 iOS 裝置連接

So here's the iPad.

呢度有個 iPad

And Romo will actually stream video to this device.

Romo 會將現場畫面傳送到呢部機度

So I can see everything that Romo sees,

所以我可以睇到 Romo 睇到嘅嘢

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

同埋擁有機械人嘅視界

Now this is a free app on the App Store,

而家呢個程式喺 App Store 係免費嘅

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

所以如果你哋手機入邊有呢個程式嘅話

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

我們可以一齊現場控制機械人同玩遊戲

So I'll show you really quickly,

咁我而家就好快趣畀大家睇下…

Romo actually -- he's streaming video,

Romo 事實上——佢喺度直播緊

so you can see me and the entire TED audience.

你可以睇到我同埋成班 TED 觀眾

If I get in front of Romo here.

如果我跑到 Romo 嘅前面

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

如果我想要控制佢，我可以直接駕駛佢

So I can drive him around,

我可以揸佢去唔同嘅地方

and I can take pictures of you.

我又可以用佢幫你哋影相

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

我一直都想要一幅 有 1,500 位 TED 觀眾嘅相

So I'll snap a picture.

咁等我影返幅先

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

好似你碌 iPad 一樣

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

我可以碌螢幕嚟控制 機械人上面攝影機嘅角度

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

呢個就係 Romo 眼中嘅你哋啦

And finally, because Romo is an extension of me,

仲有，因為 Romo 係我嘅工具

I can express myself through his emotions.

所以我可以利用佢嚟表達我嘅心情

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

包括用 iPad 將 Romo 變得興奮

But the most important thing about Romo

但係 Romo 最重要嘅一件事就係

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

我哋想整一啲淨係需要直覺就可以嘅嘢

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

你唔需要教人點樣去控制 Romo

In fact, who would like to drive a robot?

其實而家有冇人想控制個機械人？

Okay. Awesome.

太好啦

Here you go.

畀你

Thank you, Scott.

唔該晒 Scott

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

更加正嘅係

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

你唔需要喺機械人所在嘅位置 控制機械人

So he actually streams two-way audio and video

你見到啦

機械人可以令任何兩部智能裝置 做到雙向視音通訊

between any two smart devices.

So you can log in through the browser,

即係話你可以利用瀏覽器 登入做視音通訊

and it's kind of like Skype on wheels.

所以佢好似流動嘅 Skype 咁

So we were talking before about telepresence,

咁我哋之前喺度講緊網真會議 呢個就係一個好正嘅例子啦

and this is a really cool example.

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

舉個例子，你可以想像 一個擁有 iPhone 嘅八歲細路女

and her mom buys her a robot.

而佢媽媽買咗一個機械人畀佢

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

呢個女仔可以將佢嘅 iPhone 放喺個機械人上

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

然後寄一封電郵 畀住喺另一笪地方嘅阿嫲

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

阿嫲可以登入機械人

然後同佢個孫女 每晚玩 15 分鐘伏匿匿

for fifteen minutes every single night,

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

如果唔係咁，佢有可能一年 先至有一、兩次可以睇佢個孫女

Thanks, Scott.

唔該晒，Scott

(Applause)

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

咁啱啱所講嘅就係一啲 Romo 今日可以做到嘅得意嘢

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

最後我想講埋我哋末來打算要做啲乜嘢

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

呢個其實係我哋其中一位工程師 Dom 喺週末做出來嘅

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

佢用一個叫做 Blockly 嘅 Google 公開系統開發

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

呢個你可以拖放呢啲語義代碼塊

and create any behavior for this robot you want.

並為機械人創造出 任何一種你想要嘅行為

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

你毋需要知道點樣編碼 都可以為 Romo 創造一個行為

And you can actually simulate that behavior in the browser,

你更加可以喺瀏覽器度模擬呢個行為

which is what you see Romo doing on the left.

即係你而家喺左手邊 睇到 Romo 做嘅嘢

And then if you have something you like,

如果你有鍾意嘅嘢

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

你可以下載到你嘅機械人，然後執行

run the program in real life.

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

如果你有啲你自豪嘅嘢

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

你可以將佢同全球嘅機械人主人分享

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

所以呢，呢啲有無線功能嘅機械人 其實會互相學習

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

我哋之所以要全心全意製造出 任何人都可以訓練嘅機械人

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

係因為我哋認為私人機械人 最重要嘅嘢在於個人化

They change from person to person.

人人對機械人嘅需要都唔同

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

所以我哋覺得如果你想喺屋企 整返個機械人嘅話

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

咁你需要用你嘅想像力 去設計呢個機械人

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

我希望我可以同你講到 末來個人機械人係點樣

To be honest, I have no idea.

但老實講，我自己都唔知

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

但係我哋可以好肯定佢唔使一百億

or a large humanoid robot away.

唔使等十年或者等人形機械人出現之後

The future of personal robotics is happening today,

個人機械人嘅未來就係喺今日

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

機械人會好似 Romo 一樣小型、敏捷

and the creativity of people like yourselves.

同埋按大家嘅創意去設計

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

我哋唔單止等唔切 畀你哋全部人擁有機械人

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

我哋亦都好想睇下 你哋切出嚟嘅機械人

Thank you.

多謝大家

(Applause)

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