Sony Able to Make Humanoid Robots Rapidly As soon as Utilization Turns into Clear, CTO Hiroaki Kitano Says

Japanese electronics and leisure conglomerate Sony Group stated on Tuesday it has the expertise to make humanoid robots shortly as soon as it has recognized how they may very well be successfully used.

“By way of expertise, a number of corporations on the earth together with this one have sufficient expertise collected to make them swiftly as soon as it turns into clear which utilization is promising,” Sony Chief Know-how Officer Hiroaki Kitano informed Reuters in an interview.

“The secret is the event of utility,” Kitano stated.

Sony launched a robotic canine known as Aibo greater than 20 years in the past. It bought about 150,000 items of Aibo from 1999 till 2006 and launched a sophisticated model in 2018, promoting about 20,000 items within the first six months.

Humanoid robots have been in improvement for many years by Honda Motor and Hyundai Motor and in September, Tesla Chief Govt Elon Musk confirmed off a prototype of its humanoid robotic Optimus.

Musk’s firm is floating plans to deploy 1000’s of the robots in its factories, increasing finally to tens of millions all over the world.

Kitano stated Sony, armed with experience in audio-visual expertise and wealthy leisure content material together with music and video video games, was effectively positioned to play a significant function within the metaverse, or immersive digital worlds.

The metaverse is a obscure time period encapsulating the concept customers will spend extra time in on-line simulated environments. Whereas the idea is evolving, it has turn into a buzzword in briefings and a driver of trade earmarking.

“As for the metaverse, it isn’t like individuals would present up simply since you’ve created a venue … Content material is what makes or breaks the metaverse.”

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