Chinese scientists took a massive leap in the world of robotics with a new mindreading robot. According to a report, it has a 96 percent accuracy. Read to know more about it.
What can the mindreading robot do?
According to a report from South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based-newspaper, there is a new mindreading robot that is 96 percent accurate. Developers from China Three Gorges University’s Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Technology Centre tested it for accuracy. The industrial robot can measure the worker’s brain waves. The robot can read the brain waves of workers without them saying anything. It was able to pick up a tool and keep it on the workstation
It can also collect electric signals from their muscles. Additionally, according to the developers, it works seamlessly for assembling a complex product. “In modern industrial manufacturing, assembly work accounts for 45 percent of the total workload, and 20-30 percent of the total production cost,” stated Dong Yuanfa and his co-researchers. Yuanfa is the lead scientist for the project and the study is published in China Mechanical Engineering, a domestic peer-review journal. (https://www.saasgenius.com/)
Robots for better workspaces
Research also shows that cobots or collaborative robots can help in speeding up the pace of the assembly line. However, their application is limited. According to the paper, it is due to “their ability to recognize human intention is often inaccurate and unstable”. Dong also added that the mindreading robot underwent “hundreds of hours of training” with volunteers’ help. The process included cruelly putting together a product with assembly-line workers.
The robot can follow workers’ commands 70 percent of the time. But, the volunteers and workers have to “concentrate very hard”. The study was also stressing on further tests needed for establishing its use in a factory.