Name: A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food | Ali Kashani
Uploaded: 2020-10-26T18:37:07.000Z
Duration: 8 min 52 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Helen Chang

It's the thing that saves millennials from starvation.

它能夠拯救千禧世代免於餓死。

Americans order over 20 million restaurant deliveries

Over half of these deliveries are actually within walking distance.

But nine out of 10 are delivered in cars.

這些外送當中有一半以上 其實都是走得到的距離。

我們是用兩公噸的汽車， 運送兩磅的墨西哥捲餅，

把墨西哥捲餅送給你所用的能源，

is actually bringing you a two-ton metal cage

其實是把將裝有加熱椅的 兩公噸重金屬籠子帶給你。

每一台汽車就對應有四個停車位？

for every car, there are four parking spots?

超過一半的地產是給汽車用的。

over half of the real estate is for cars.

我們以我們的汽車 為中心來設計城市，

We have designed our cities around our cars,

因為不論我們要去的地方是兩英里 或兩百英里遠，我們都開車。

because we drive whether we're going two miles

我們也會開著同一台運動休旅車 去買咖啡或咖啡桌。

如果我們能把這些街道 和停車位分一些出來，

We get into the same SUV to go buy coffee or a coffee table.

我們就能建造更多住房、 更多社交空間、更多公園。

If we could free up some of these streets and parking lots,

我們先得要重新思考 現今該怎麼使用汽車。

如果要到五個街區外的地方， 你會呼叫重型或輕型機車。

first, we need to rethink how we are using cars today.

如果你趕時間， 載客無人機會去載你。

如果你需要食物， 不用找人開車送來——

if you want to go five blocks, you summon a bike or a scooter.

If you're in a rush, a passenger drone would pick you up.

咱們先回來談一天 兩千萬趟的餐廳外送。

And if you need food, no need to have someone drive over --

光是在美國，我們對汽車的需求

Let's go back to those 20 million a day restaurant deliveries.

If we could get these deliveries off the road,

想想看對於德里這類的城市 會有什麼樣的影響，

for as many as one and a half million cars just in the US.

在那裡，每年有數千人 死於汽車污染。

Now, think of the impact this could have on cities like Delhi,

所以，我們要如何 把一些外送從路上除去？

where car pollution is killing thousands of people every year.

So how do we get some of these deliveries off the road?

that my team and I have been obsessed with over the last three years.

我們創造出了小型自駕式機器人，

And the solution is actually one of the building blocks

能在安靜的巷弄 及人行道中找到方向，

We've been creating small, self-driving robots

還有安全的貨倉 可以運送你的食物和用品。

在我跟大家進一步 說明這種機器人之前，

and have a secured cargo to deliver you food and supplies.

在你的腦海中，想像一個城市，

Now, before I tell you more about the robots,

In your mind, picture a city with thousands of robots.

很多人預期的會是這種 好萊塢式的反烏托邦。

但我們的工作是要 創造出友善的未來，

This Hollywood dystopia is what a lot of people expect.

But our job is to create a friendly future that's designed for people.

而是要創造出讓人熟悉的機器人。

we set out to create robots that are familiar.

Robots that would belong in our communities.

出乎意料但又讓人愉快的驚喜。

That's the moment when you're going to decide

已經有很多人有著 反烏托邦的想法，

And with a lot of people having these dystopian ideas,

這樣我們才能在第一印象 就贏得他們的心。

這就是我們想出來的。 它讓人感到熟悉，

so that we can win them over on first impression.

但它也像是瓦力和小小兵的混種。

but it also looks like we crossbred WALL-E with Minions.

可能已經有這種機器人 幫你做過外送了。

If you live in San Francisco or Los Angeles,

chances are one of these has already delivered your food.

As soon as we put robots out on the street,

we learned some really interesting problems.

Or how should robots interact with people with visual or mobility impairments?

我們很快就發現，我們得要教導

We quickly realized that we need to teach our robots

在人行道上會遇到各行各業的人，

People on the sidewalk come from every walk of life,

so people and robots can understand each other

因為沒有人會去讀使用者手冊。

Because no one is going to be reading user manuals.

我們從眼睛著手， 因為眼睛語言是共通的。

We started with eyes, because eyes are universal.

此外，眼睛讓機器人 看起來更像人。

For example, we created this running sound

讓視覺障礙的人可以靠都卜勒效應

so that people with visual impairments could locate their robots

在十字路口，汽車會直接 從機器人前面切過去。

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