Gates on robot future

When a growing number of computer science and technology of the future technology companies are fantasy fashion, a topic on the robot as IT leader of Gates 2007 Digest science United States person "magazine published an article entitled" let the robot into the millions (Arobot in EveryHome) article, forecast information technology field in the next wave will be robots.

He mentioned in the article, current robot industry problems exactly 30 years ago, the Microsoft Corporation in the computer field very similar problems.

Robot manufacturers lack can let the application run the operating system environment in General. In robot processors hardware requirements on lack of uniform standards and robot development code is rarely used in another robot development. If you want to develop a robot that everything has to start from zero. This digest is the following:

In the month of February 2004, I visited some of the famous American universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Harvard, Cornell University, colleges and universities.

I talk to teachers and students of the University to explore your computer to solve urgent problems in society, to take this opportunity to help students learn computer science meaning and value in an attempt to encourage them to develop computer science as a career planning. After his speech, the school of computer science are scheduled shows the latest research results, however, without exception, these projects have at least one item is associated with the robot. At that time, my Microsoft colleagues also heard many from academic and some of the producers, they hope that Microsoft is able to do something about the robot industry. Subsequently, I get a job at Microsoft's 25 years of colleagues Dr. against robot industry TandyTrower do a thorough investigation, we found a grim reality: robot hardware development already had some success, but the biggest challenge is software lag. Read Tandy's investigation results, I think that software relatively backward robot industry, we can make 30 years ago in the quantum computer, flying, it was necessary to find lost things. Therefore, I propose to establish a Tandy team developed a series of development tools that can help those who are interested in robots even only the initial programming knowledge of people, it is easy for you to write applications for a variety of robot hardware. Our robot software to do, just like the Microsoft Corporation in the start-up time is available to programmers MicrosoftBACIS.

As application development, it is difficult to accurately forecast the robot software will be on the industry and how human life, however, there is no doubt that the robot will provide the elderly and disabled in the action, will also be on soldiers, construction workers, as well as the attending physician, who, given the endurance and help and support on.

Robots will become more and more in line with consumer demand, they will have on human work, communication, learning and entertainment, and so have an important and far-reaching influence, just as a computer in the past 30 years to bring change in the world.

In this regard, Bill Gates speech at Tsinghua University · question links, Tsinghua students from Microsoft's innovation asked to Microsoft research, from Gates tour space program asked gates on the future prospects of the computer.

Tsinghua University Alumni open ideas, the gates of dialogue emotional arousal is becoming more and more high. One from Tsinghua University Biology Department of undergraduate student asked a question about robots: I know that Microsoft has released the SDK2 robot project KIT. Microsoft development teams have the robots and artificial intelligence have development plan?

Gates to ask questions of fellow nodded, then with great interest the answer to: science fiction writer as we described the future robots, robot development is still at a very early stage.

First open market should be a toy robot and medical Robotics market, but also for areas such as security and manufacturing sectors robots. I think if you give sufficient time, these areas will have a large market. Microsoft's early entry into the market is very important.

Now the world's top universities have many outstanding on the robot.

As a software company, we can do is develop software applications, enables people do not have to concern about the specific details of the robot. For example, our Research Institute developed a number of Visual software enables a better use of the robot, but those Development Kit (KIT) will make the job easier. We have a lot of intelligent software such as ReasoningSoftware etc. These software may become our breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence, even a very small part of it. In future, we can provide some module for developing robot system. Each of the robot in the research and development on software and hardware will make great progress, but Microsoft can do some applicable to all kinds of different robot software. I can't guarantee 5 years more robot market, but 10 to 15 years such a time scale will have a lot of amazing things happen. However, many thorny issues and does not consist of hardware and software, so we hope to do in these areasA contribution, I also believe that many of the new company will rise from this area.