Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic For more than 100 years, writers, artists and filmmakers have sketched out their visions of the\u00a0household robot, a supposedly inevitable culmination of human technological advancement. One day, these multitasking machines will, we\u2019re told, perform tedious tasks efficiently and without complaint, respond courteously to requests and remain unobtrusively compliant and meek. In The Automatic Maid-Of-All-Work (1893), author ML Campbell described such a machine as \u201ca queer looking thing, with its long arms [and] a face like one of those twenty-four hour clocks\u2026 each number was a sort of electric button. There were a lot of wires\u2026 [it] would be handy in lots of ways.\u201d The fact that helpful, mild-mannered, multitasking domestic robots remain conspicuously absent from our homes is indicative of the profound engineering challenges involved in creating them, but that hasn\u2019t stopped robotics firms \u2013 the vast majority in east and south-east Asia \u2013 making great efforts to hasten their arrival.The annual Las Vegas electronics trade event, CES, can\u00a0always be relied upon to give an update on how these efforts are progressing. This year humanoid robots, such as China\u2019s Unitree G1, moved across the showroom floor with surprising grace, waving hello to onlookers but stopping noticeably short of doing any laundry.\u00a0Others, like Japanese startup Yukai Engineering\u2019s fluffy Mirumi robot, won hearts by simply looking around appreciatively at people with mournful eyes while clipped to a handbag strap. Somewhere between those two extremes sat China\u2019s Roborock\u2019s Saros Z70, a standard-looking, disc-shaped vacuum bot with an extendable arm that was able to identify and pick up a discarded sock to allow it to clean underneath. A simple act, but one that seemed to elicit disproportionate delight.\u201cThese kinds of tasks have always been confined to humans,\u201d says Roborock\u2019s Ruben Rodriguez. \u201cSo when you see a robot making a decision to try a little harder to clean up some mess, which is such a human thing to do \u2013 yes, it\u2019s amusing!\u201d Professor Kerstin Fischer, an expert on human-robot interaction at the University of Southern Denmark, agrees. \u201cWhat we\u2019re designing is like a version of ourselves, especially when they take over human tasks or enter human spaces,\u201d she says. \u201cSo we get excited around them. They\u2019re attractive to a high degree, and we have lots of hopes and expectations when we\u00a0start to interact with them.\u201dThose expectations are often pitched a little high, as anyone who has owned and used a vacuum bot in\u00a0their home will testify. Nevertheless, they have succeeded in becoming one\u00a0of the first types of domestic robot\u00a0to reach the mass market for a good reason: we can\u00a0trust them to provide a specific and well-understood level of utility. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing incremental improvements to\u00a0a level where they\u2019re completely different machines to,\u00a0say, 10 years ago,\u201d says Rodriguez. The widespread acceptance of that form factor has\u00a0seen\u00a0Roborock use it as\u00a0an almost literal platform upon which to\u00a0build. Ditto Switchbot, a Chinese company\u00a0whose new K20+Pro is billed as a \u201cmultitasking household robot\u201d \u2013 although switching between its various\u00a0capabilities requires human\u00a0assistance: pop a filter\u00a0attachment on top\u00a0of its\u00a0vacuum base and it becomes a roving air cleaner; switch\u00a0that out for a camera and it\u2019ll\u00a0prowl your\u00a0home to\u00a0monitor for intruders.\u00a0\u201cWe believe in specialised robots, working with connected hubs, sensors, cameras,\u201d says Switchbot\u2019s Richard Mou. \u201cThey\u2019re all parts and organs of one single robot, called your home. At this time,\u201d continues Mou, \u201cwe don\u2019t believe in a humanoid robot that can do everything.\u201dBut some are still valiantly pursuing that long dreamt-of goal of a humanoid lackey. In February, Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled a video of\u00a0its latest creation, the Neo Gamma, whose form feels very much like a descendant of the Maschinenmensch robot featured in the early sci-fi film Metropolis (1927) or, for that matter, Star Wars\u2019 C-3PO. It is shown living alongside a couple in a beautiful home, vacuuming its floors, cleaning windows and serving wine at dinner. According to CEO Bernt B\u00f8rnich, if we\u2019re genuinely seeking to offload our domestic chores to a robot, it has to take a humanoid form.\u00a0\u201cEverything in your home is made for humans,\u201d he says. \u201cWe spent centuries making everything as ergonomic as possible for us to use. Also, people don\u2019t realise how much of our intelligence is actually part of our body, part of\u00a0the way we move.\u201d If they live with us, according to B\u00f8rnich, they will learn from us. And Neo Gamma, he says, will shortly be introduced to a broader array of testers under a non-disclosure agreement. \u201cThe version after that will go to paying consumers,\u201d he adds.Professor Fischer has some doubts about the speed of this timeline. \u201cA generalist, a robot that can do everything humans can do, seems to be very far from reality,\u201d she says. \u201cJust to move around, to coordinate with people, to move in social spaces \u2013 there\u2019s so much knowledge there that\u2019s very hard to model. One thing about robots is that they\u00a0teach us how complex our dealings with the world really are.\u201dI was surprised at my feelings of mild sadness watching Neo Gamma at work. Call\u00a0me a fool for attributing human qualities to a machine, but I found the spectacle of this rather put-upon entity executing thankless tasks, day and night, rather bleak. But maybe I need to push through that in order to appreciate a future\u00a0that will, as B\u00f8rnich puts it, be characterised by \u201clabour in abundance\u201d.Perhaps my ideal domestic robot wouldn\u2019t be a compliant servant, but an entity I like spending time with.At CES, US maker Realbotix showcased a humanoid robot, Aria, that resembled a\u00a0conventionally attractive woman with\u00a0long\u00a0blonde hair who could, thanks to\u00a0generative AI, engage you in some kind\u00a0of\u00a0conversation \u2013 although it wasn\u2019t\u00a0particularly free-flowing. While undoubtedly an extraordinary engineering achievement (multiple motors in Aria\u2019s face are used to give it appropriate expressions) the aim to create a robot \u201cspecifically for companionship and intimacy\u201d, as Realbotix puts it, still feels a long way off.\u00a0Chinese firms EXDoll and Starpery are\u00a0exploring similar territory in their sex-doll lines with features such as robotic\u00a0movement, sensor-driven physical responses and AI-driven chat (albeit around one main topic). These could be termed \u201csex robots\u201d, but according to a recent paper by Kate Devlin, professor of artificial intelligence at King\u2019s College London, they stand apart from general robotics trends in that they\u2019re \u201cnot programmable machines designed to automate a task… [their] autonomy is somewhat limited, and they are […] passive rather than active.\u00a0\u201cCost and access are also issues,\u201d she writes in a recent paper, noting that one such robot (with an animatronic head and a\u00a0doll body) costs more than $10,000. \u201cThe\u00a0promise of an artificial partner is\u00a0still\u00a0far greater than what has been delivered [and] it seems likely, at the time of writing, that not much will change.\u201dThis doesn\u2019t, however, mean that non-humanoid robots can\u2019t delight and\u00a0amuse us. Chinese firm Hengbot attended CES with Sirius, a sleek robot puppy that responds to voice commands, has a playful, coquettish manner and is,\u00a0of course, guaranteed not to soil your floor. Jizai, based in Tokyo, unveiled Mi-Mo, which takes the form of a lamp\u00a0atop a six-legged wooden table and\u00a0is able \u2013 just like Luxo Jr, its Pixar equivalent \u2013 to respond to surroundings and\u00a0emote. \u201cWe learned from many creations in the\u00a0world of anime and animation,\u201d says\u00a0Jizai\u2019s Yuki Ishikawa.\u00a0One of the most delightful robots was one of the most practical, and, at\u00a0$25, probably the cheapest. Yukai Engineering (whose name means \u201cjoyful\u201d in Japanese) showed off N\u00e9kojita FuFu, a mini cat-shaped robot that clips to the edge of a mug\u00a0or bowl and blows on your tea or your soup to cool it down. \u201cWe\u00a0put value on\u00a0the emotional side of the robot,\u201d says CEO Yukai\u2019s Shunsuke Aoki.\u201d And we try to\u00a0make them\u00a0as affordable as possible by making the function very simple.\u201d\u00a0A curious and unexpected realisation when spending time with robots like these is the affection you begin to feel towards them. Yukai Engineering\u2019s Qoobo, a \u201ctherapeutic cushion\u201d that wags its\u00a0tail when stroked, sits\u00a0in the corner of my office and occasionally moves. \u201cOh, hello there,\u201d I sometimes find myself saying to it,\u00a0before catching myself.\u201cRobots are depictions of social beings, and we understand them [as\u00a0such],\u201d says Fischer. \u201cWhen we see\u00a0a\u00a0movie character, we immerse ourselves in its world and get\u00a0scared when the movie is scary, even though\u00a0we know that it\u2019s just a movie. Robots are basically the same thing, and we can switch between perspectives. We might say, \u2018Are you hungry?\u2019 to\u00a0a\u00a0robot, but in the next second switch it off and put it away.\u201d Whatever feelings we may develop for them, our attachment to them is unlikely to become all-consuming.Much of the groundbreaking work in this field is being\u00a0done in the Far East, and the reasons for that appear\u00a0to be cultural as well as economic and technological. \u201cI think people in Japan, people in Asia, tend\u00a0to see robots as\u00a0their friends,\u201d says Aoki. \u201cThis concept is very familiar to us through animation, of robots\u00a0as little companions.\u201d Ishikawa also attributes any\u00a0Japanese affection for robots to a culture rooted in polytheistic religion. \u201cA long time ago, we saw life in trees, in the sun, in stones,\u201d he says. \u201cThe Japanese [see these] creations as profound, as feeling life. So they feel that robots are one of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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