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

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

譯者: Jui-Hsin Chen 審譯者: Claire Yeh

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

如果你的家裡有機器人的話，麻煩舉個手

Not very many of you.

不是很多人有的樣子

Okay. And actually of those hands,

好吧。剛剛舉手的觀眾們，

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

如果你所謂的機器人不包含 Roomba 掃地機器人的話， 你們還有多少人家中有機器人?

So a couple.

剩兩三隻小貓。

That's okay.

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

沒有關係。

這是我們 Romotive 公司試著去解決的問題

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

20 位宅男和我在 Romotive 努力地去找出解答

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

我們真的很希望能創造出一個， 所有人都可以用的機器人

whether you're eight or 80.

不管你是八歲還是八十歲

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

而事實表明，這成了一件非常困難的問題，

because you have to build a small, portable robot

因為要做出一個夠小、容易攜帶的機器人

that's not only really affordable,

它不僅僅是要價格夠親民

but it has to be something

它同時也要成為一個

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

家家戶戶都想要把它帶回家， 並讓小孩接受的機器人。

This robot can't be creepy or uncanny.

這樣的機器人不能 設計得很詭異或不討喜。

He should be friendly and cute.

他應該要是友善中帶點可愛。

So meet Romo.

為你們介紹 ROMO。

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

ROMO 這個機器人，需要藉由一個 你們已熟悉且是你們最愛的產品來運作

your iPhone -- as his brain.

你們手中的iPhone，用來當作它的大腦

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

透過 iPhone 處理器的力量

we can create a robot that is wi-fi enabled

我們可以創造一個連接 WIFI 無線網路的機器人

and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks,

同時擁有電腦視覺能力， 而它只需要 150 塊美金

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

這樣的花費，是過去同類型機器人的百分之一而已

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

當 ROMO 被喚醒時，它會進入生物狀態

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

它實際上是用它裝置上攝影機來追蹤我的臉

If I duck down, he'll follow me.

如果我蹲下，它會跟著我一起動

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

它很謹慎，所以它一直盯著我不放。

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

如果我走過來，它就會轉向並跟蹤我

If I come over here -- (Laughs)

如果走到這邊（笑）

He's smart.

它很聰明

And if I get too close to him,

要是我太靠近它

he gets scared just like any other creature.

它會感到害怕，就像任何生物一樣

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

所以在很多方面，ROMO 像是 一隻有自己想法的寵物

Thanks, little guy.

謝謝你，小傢伙。

(Sneezing sound)

（打噴嚏聲）

Bless you.

保佑你。

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

如果我想要探索世界--呃-哦，ROMO 累了--

if I want to explore the world with Romo,

如果我想要和 ROMO 一起探索世界，

I can actually connect him from any other iOS device.

我可以將他和任何 iOS 的設備做連接。

So here's the iPad.

這裡有個 iPad。

And Romo will actually stream video to this device.

ROMO 會將視訊串流到這個設備。

So I can see everything that Romo sees,

所以我可以看到 ROMO 看到的一切，

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

而我可以從機器人的視角來看世界。

Now this is a free app on the App Store,

這在 App Store 中是一個免費的軟體

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

所以如果你們在手機上安裝了此應用程式，

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

我們現在可以共同控制這個機器人， 並且一起玩遊戲。

So I'll show you really quickly,

我現在很快地做個示範，

Romo actually -- he's streaming video,

ROMO實際上是在串流影片，

so you can see me and the entire TED audience.

所以你可以看到我和全部 TED 觀眾。

If I get in front of Romo here.

如果我在這裡擋住了ROMO。

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

如果我想要控制它，我可以駕駛它。

So I can drive him around,

所以我可以帶它在附近繞繞，

and I can take pictures of you.

我可以幫你們拍張照片。

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

我一直都想要有張一千五百個 TED 觀眾的照片

So I'll snap a picture.

所以我拍了一張照片

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

就和你在iPAD上滑動頁面的方式一樣，

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

我可以用此方式調整 這裝置上攝影機鏡頭的角度。

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

透過 ROMO 的眼睛，你們全部都在這裡了。

And finally, because Romo is an extension of me,

最後，因為 ROMO 像是我的分身，

I can express myself through his emotions.

我可以透過它的表情來展現我自己。

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

所以我可以進入 ROMO 的內心， 我們來讓 ROMO 興奮一下。

But the most important thing about Romo

但關於ROMO最重要的事

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

是我們想要創造一個完全依靠直覺的東西。

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

你不需要教他人如何駕駛 ROMO。

In fact, who would like to drive a robot?

實際上，有誰願意來駕駛這個機器人？

Okay. Awesome.

很好。很棒。

Here you go.

拿去吧。

Thank you, Scott.

謝謝你，史考特。

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

更酷的是，你其實不一定要

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

和機器人處在同一個地理位置來控制它。

So he actually streams two-way audio and video

他實際上是在任意兩個智慧型設備之間

between any two smart devices.

做雙向的音訊和影像串流。

So you can log in through the browser,

所以你可以透過瀏覽器來登入，

and it's kind of like Skype on wheels.

而它就像是有輪子的 Skype 一樣。

So we were talking before about telepresence,

所以我們剛剛所講的就是遠端臨場感，

and this is a really cool example.

這裡有個很酷的例子。

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

舉例來說，你可以想像一個 八歲大的女孩，而她擁有一台 iPhone，

and her mom buys her a robot.

而她媽媽買給她一個機器人。

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

那個女孩可以拿著她的 iPhone，把它放在機器人上

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

給她住在國家另一端的奶奶寄一封電子郵件。

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

奶奶可以登入那個機器人，然後 和她的孫女一起玩捉迷藏。

for fifteen minutes every single night,

每晚十五分鐘，

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

否則她一年可能只能見到她奶奶一兩次而已。

Thanks, Scott.

謝謝你，史考特。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

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

所以這些是ROMO今天能做的幾個很酷的事。

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

但我現在結束前，談談我們未來要努力的方向。

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

這實際上是我們的一個工程師，Dom， 在一個週末做出的成果。

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

它是建立在 Google 一個 稱為 Blockly 的開放框架上的。

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

這可以讓你拖拉這些代表各種程式碼的小方塊

and create any behavior for this robot you want.

同時創造任何你想要這個機器人所做的行為。

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

您不需要知道如何去寫 ROMO 行為模式的程式碼。

And you can actually simulate that behavior in the browser,

你實際上可以在瀏覽器中去模擬這些行為模式，

which is what you see Romo doing on the left.

就像你在左邊看到ROMO正在做的事。

And then if you have something you like,

如果你發現有什麼是你喜歡的，

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

你可以下載這些程式到你的機器人， 並在現實生活中去執行它

run the program in real life.

在現實生活中實現該程式。

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

接著，如果你有什麼值得讓你驕傲的

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

你可以和世界上任何一個擁有機器人的人分享。

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

因此，所有這些連接 WIFI 無線網路的機器人， 實際上在互相學習。

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

我們極度專注於建造一個，所有人 都可以訓練的機器人的原因是

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

我們相信在這些個人機器人中， 最能引人注目的使用方式，是基於獨立個體。

They change from person to person.

這些機器人會因為使用者的不同而不同。

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

所以，我們認為，如果你要 在你的家中放置一個機器人，

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

那個機器人應該是你豐富想像力的具體實現。

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

所以，我希望我能告訴你 個人機器人的未來是什麼樣子。

To be honest, I have no idea.

老實說，我也不知道。

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

但我們知道的是，這不需花費 10 年或 100 億美金來製造

or a large humanoid robot away.

也不是一個大型的類人型機器人。

The future of personal robotics is happening today,

個人機器人的未來就發生在現在，

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

它取決於體積小且敏捷的機器人，像是 ROMO 這樣

and the creativity of people like yourselves.

還有像你們一樣有創造力的人們。

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

所以，我們等不及把機器人 送到你們全部人的手上，

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

我們也等不及要看看你們所創造的成果。

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

（掌聲）