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Asked by anon-252068 to Kim on 27 Apr 2020.
Question: How long does it usually take for a robot to be fully built and functional?
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Kim Liu answered on 27 Apr 2020: last edited 28 Apr 2020 9:14 am
Hi – thanks for your question ~ I’m afraid I honestly have no idea! I only know how to use the robot I have, and not at all how to build it.
I’m emailing my contacts in the industry to ask them how long it takes to build their machines. To make it functional requires a few months to program and write the instructions.
This is a good example of how science requires collaboration to be successful! My robot only exists because robotics engineers, software developers and biologists have worked together to build and use a very powerful machine.
Leave a comment, if you want to have a discussion 🙂
Edit: I’ve found out that one of my robots take approx. one day to assemble, which is faster than I thought!
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Tom commented on :
It depends how clever the robot is, and what it is trying to do that is difficult. Most robots are actually used in factories to build things like cars. Individual robots there are made quite quickly (a few weeks), but they are modified for the exact job and that can take months.
The really fancy robots that are made by people like Boston Dynamics have taken years and many failed attempts to build.
Shenghong commented on :
Quite interesting question. I think it really depend on what kind of robot you want to build. To build a quite high level robot with advanced intelligence could take years even for a company. However, there are also some entry-level robots which would not be too hard to build. I think the most important part in a robot is the control algorithm. For example, to develop a chat humanoid robot, in the control algorithms, we have to consider speech recognition, scene understanding, joint control, logical reasoning, etc., each of which could be quite challenging. Good thing is we already have many very good robot platforms and programmers to facilitate the progress.