英国机器人工业面临的任务 70年代末,美国的工厂主突然意识到:他们在世界上的领先地位正在受到“外国廉价劳力”的威胁,因此他们竭力主张:美国应从速造出整队有人类特征的拟人机器人,籍以冲淡外国廉价劳力的优势。但是,这种策略是行不通的。它的致命伤是:人类并不是执行生产任务的最佳设计。人类的体力、精确性、灵敏度、速度等都并不理想。譬如缝 Mission of the British Robotics Industry In the late 1970s, American factory owners suddenly realized that their leading position in the world was being threatened by “cheap foreign labor.” They therefore tried hard to argue that the United States should promptly create a human-like Anthropomorphic robots, membership to dilute the advantages of foreign cheap labor. However, this strategy will not work. Its fatal trauma is: Humans are not the best design to perform production tasks. Human physical strength, accuracy, sensitivity, speed, etc. are not ideal. For example, sewing