The crowd looked for him thousands of Baidu, and suddenly looked back, the robot seems to have met each other?
At the recent 2017CES show, a number of cute family social robots appeared on the stand to interact with the exhibitors. However, these social robots have also grown a red face, making people stupid. However, this net red face is not the awl snake face, but it is white fat and stupid.
These social robots that look like include Jibo, Kuri of Mayfield RoboTIcs, Mykie of Bosch, and Hub of LG.
It is not difficult to find that their common features are that the whole body is white, round and smooth, and the head is large and small. There may be one eye or two, but there are no ears, mouth and arms. After reading it, I can't help but feel that "there are thousands of Baidu in the public, which robot are you?" Human imagination of robots is so flat? Let's take a brief look at the design perspective of why these family social robots look the same.
Small and white: clean, friendly, modern 　　
Nancy Dassault Smith, Jibo's vice president of marketing, said, “The robot we designed is clean and modern, and it feels friendly and friendly. People will want to have such a robot at home.â€
According to Kaijen Hsiao, chief content officer at Mayfield RoboTIcs, “People are very picky about the products at home. It’s hard to make a home decoration that suits everyone. The small and white look is the most pleasing.
Round and smoother and safer 　　
Human vision prefers a soft but not sharp outline. These social robots are designed to be smooth and symmetrical, which caters to people's senses. The circular design makes it easy for the robot's head to move up and down and left and right. Not only that, but such a design will also make social robots more secure. It can be moved at home to avoid friction damage and to protect children in the home.
Big head dolls
Although these robots are composed of "body" and "head", then the proportion is different from the human body. It looks like a big doll. Dassault Smith said that when designing Jibo, the ratio of head to body has been carefully considered. Jibo is designed to be big and wants to evoke a love for small animals or babies because small animals and babies have large heads.
Anthropomorphism is not a good strategy
From the above points, it seems that the design of social robots needs to cater to people's vision and human emotions?
At this point, Jibo and Kuri have different design concepts, especially when it comes to designing "eyes." Kuri has two "eyes" and even "eyelids" that can "blink". Kaijen Hsiao said, “I wanted to make a small screen with an 'eye' at the beginning. But we knew at the outset that if other information is displayed on the screen instead of 'eyes', this is no longer A 'face' will destroy the characteristics of the robot. So, in the end, we thought, why not just make a physical 'eye' instead of using a screen to show 'eyes'."
The difference is that Jibo has only one "eye". Dassault Smith believes: This is a very smart choice. Designing two "eyes" falls into a trap that looks too real. An "eye" can also give people the feeling of being able to communicate, but it doesn't make people think that Jibo is like a human being. And Jibo's screen can display more information.
Just like a child dressing up Barbie in the style of his favorite dress, just like Barbie. It is also easy for people to design robots in the unconscious as humans are. Especially for social robots, designing adult shapes seems to be more interactive with people. However, the obvious drawback is that the design of the body, head, face and facial features can give people an illusion that the robot can act and respond like a human. The more human-like robots grow, the more they will disappoint people at this stage. And to avoid imitating the human body, especially the face can avoid this problem.
Same and different
Of course, in addition to considering the interactive properties of social robots will affect the shape, other built-in features will also affect the design of the shape. Dussault-Smith said that the real difference between robots is internal rather than shape. Even though these robots look alike, they are designed to be different functions, and which one is more popular. We may have to wait until the full commercialization of social robots, and so on to the consumer's family.
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