{"id":112494,"date":"2020-09-04T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/insanely-humanlike-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-soon-may-take-your-job"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:27:09","slug":"insanely-humanlike-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-soon-may-take-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/insanely-humanlike-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-soon-may-take-your-job","title":{"rendered":"Insanely humanlike androids have entered the workplace and soon may take your job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WbpYLvlPoQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>November 2019 is a landmark month in the history of the future. That\u2019s when humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from people start running amok in Los Angeles. Well, at least they do in the seminal sci-fi film \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d Thirty-seven years after its release, we don\u2019t have murderous androids running around. But we do have androids like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/12\/05\/hanson-robotics-ceo-sophia-the-robot-an-advocate-for-womens-rights.html\">Hanson Robotics\u2019 Sophia<\/a>, and they could soon start working in jobs traditionally performed by people.<\/p>\n<p>Russian start-up Promobot recently unveiled what it calls the world\u2019s first autonomous android. It closely resembles a real person and can serve in a business capacity. Robo-C can be made to look like anyone, so it\u2019s like an android clone. It comes with an artificial intelligence system that has more than 100,000 speech modules, according to the company. It can operate at home, acting as a companion robot and reading out the news or managing smart appliances \u2014 basically, an anthropomorphic smart speaker. It can also perform workplace tasks such as answering customer questions in places like offices, airports, banks and museums, while accepting payments and performing other functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe analyzed the needs of our customers, and there was a demand,\u201d says Promobot co-founder and development director Oleg Kivokurtsev. \u201cBut, of course, we started the development of an anthropomorphic robot a long time ago, since in robotics there is the concept of the \u2018Uncanny Valley,\u2019 and the most positive perception of the robot arises when it looks like a person. Now we have more than 10 orders from companies and private clients from around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2019 is a landmark month in the history of the future. That\u2019s when humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from people start running amok in Los Angeles. Well, at least they do in the seminal sci-fi film \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d Thirty-seven years after its release, we don\u2019t have murderous androids running around. But we do have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,45,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}