{"id":72383,"date":"2017-09-07T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/veo-gives-robots-eyes-and-a-brain-so-they-can-safely-work-with-people"},"modified":"2017-09-11T01:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:54:49","slug":"veo-gives-robots-eyes-and-a-brain-so-they-can-safely-work-with-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/veo-gives-robots-eyes-and-a-brain-so-they-can-safely-work-with-people","title":{"rendered":"Veo Gives Robots \u2018Eyes and a Brain\u2019 So They Can Safely Work With People"},"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\/Sc5bNXZWJ70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The robots are coming.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, they\u2019re already here. Machines are learning to do tasks they\u2019ve never done before, from locating and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/02\/10\/how-robots-helped-create-100000-jobs-at-amazon\/\">retrieving goods from a shelf<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/02\/05\/what-happens-when-self-driving-is-as-common-as-cruise-control\/\">driving cars<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/10\/11\/the-future-of-surgery-is-robotic-data-driven-and-artificially-intelligent\/\">performing surgery<\/a>. In manufacturing environments, robots can place an object with millimeter precision over and over, lift hundreds of pounds without getting tired, and repeat the same action constantly for hundreds of hours.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s not give robots all the glory just yet. A lot of things that are easy for humans are still hard or impossible for robots. A three-year-old child, for example, can differentiate between a dog and a cat, or intuitively scoot over when said dog or cat jumps into its play space. A computer can\u2019t do either of these simple actions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/23\/veo-gives-robots-eyes-and-a-brain-so-they-can-safely-work-with-people\/?utm_content=buffer8c750&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/23\/veo-gives-robots-eyes-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robots are coming. Actually, they\u2019re already here. Machines are learning to do tasks they\u2019ve never done before, from locating and retrieving goods from a shelf to driving cars to performing surgery. In manufacturing environments, robots can place an object with millimeter precision over and over, lift hundreds of pounds without getting tired, and repeat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72383","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72465,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72383\/revisions\/72465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}