TOKYO — 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 might be successfully used.
“In terms of technology, several companies in the world including this one have enough technology accumulated to make them swiftly once it becomes clear which usage is promising,” Sony chief expertise officer Hiroaki Kitano informed Reuters in an interview.
“The key is the development of application,” Kitano stated.
Sony launched a robotic canine known as Aibo greater than 20 years in the past. It offered about 150,000 models of Aibo from 1999 till 2006 and launched a complicated model in 2018, promoting about 20,000 models within the first six months.
Humanoid robots have been in growth for many years by Honda Motor and Hyundai Motor and in September, Tesla CEO 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 ultimately to hundreds of thousands 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 properly positioned to play a significant position 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. While the idea is evolving, it has change into a buzzword in briefings and a driver of trade earmarking.
“As for the metaverse, it’s not like people would show up just because you’ve created a venue…Content is what makes or breaks the metaverse.” — Reuters
