Robots galore as Asia's biggest tech fair opens

Awesome event will go again on Friday. Too much to see properly in just one day

“We thought it would be better to use humans instead of AI.”

Then put a human in the first place if you think so, no need of a remote controlled toy in between. Developing an AI is quite a challenge, and I rather believe it is the reason why that robot does not have one. Calling a remote toy a robot is just another cheap shortcut we are seeing everywhere nowadays.

“This way, translators don’t have to run around—they can just sit at a central office and connect with the robots,” he said. “It’s a more efficient use of manpower.”

I’ve seen this coming for a long time. Where the AI unit cannot understand the human request it will connect to a remote human operator in a “call centre” in India (or some other low wage economy) and the human will interact through the AI unit.