American design studio Fuseproject has designed a body for a robotic system by tech studio Kind Humanoid intended for various domestic and commercial environments.
Called Kind Humanoid, the robotic system is the latest contender in the race to bring mechanical systems up to par with increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence systems.
With programming similar to the large language models popularised in text generators such as ChatGPT, the software for the robot will, if successful, allow it to perform a large number of tasks based on training via large data sets that would then trigger commands in its robotic systems.
This would allow it to function in "unstructured" environments, according to the team, such as in households or care facilities ? as opposed to what the designers said was the current focus of AI-enabled robotics, single-focus industrial usages. Fuseproject has created an industrial design for the Kind Humanoid robotic system
"AI has accelerated the speed at which we can build a robot that responds to multiple types of situations," Fuseproject founder Yves Behar told Dezeen.
"If you build a generalized robot, it will be better for all these different types of tasks, rather than building a specialized factory robot."
He said that the robot, in its current iteration, can act on subtle statements such as "I'm thirsty" by pouring a glass of water.
Behar and his firm were brought on by Kind Humanoid, which is currently...