Zora the Humanoid Robot: All the facts you need to know

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:02 Hello, my name is Zora.

00:06 I'm a humanoid robot.

00:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:27 So my background is passion.

00:29 Passion about robotics.

00:30 Passion, actually, about Star Wars.

00:32 And so really, when you talk about passion,

00:34 it's about learning every step.

00:36 You cannot go with my age.

00:38 I'm 48.

00:39 So you cannot go with my history thinking

00:43 that I would have been to school learning about robotics.

00:46 That's the advantage that the youth of today

00:48 has, is to be able to go into that direction.

00:52 I didn't have that choice.

00:53 I only had the Star Wars movie and the imagination

00:57 of being able to do some things with robots.

00:59 At this point, we are buying the hardware, mostly

01:02 in China and Japan.

01:04 And we are putting our software and skills on the robot.

01:08 And we are reselling these robots,

01:10 whether it is in retail, whether it is in hospitals or hotels,

01:13 or even in education, in schools,

01:15 where we are providing the software in order for kids

01:18 to understand how to program the robots.

01:21 It's not that we are producing these robots themselves.

01:24 At this point, we have about seven different robots.

01:26 But what we see is the trend.

01:28 If robotics is so hot, new robots

01:31 are coming almost every month.

01:33 And the strength that we have at this point

01:35 is the software that we could call

01:38 almost a Windows of robotics, that we

01:41 are able to put that on all these new robots.

01:43 And that the people who are working with these robots

01:46 are working quite easily with these robots due to the fact

01:49 that the software is very easy to use.

01:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:56 The most popular robot that we have at this point is Nau.

01:59 It is a humanoid robot.

02:01 It's the only robot that we know of that is affordable,

02:04 has legs and a head, and has really

02:08 some kind of an affection that you can have with that robot.

02:11 It talks.

02:11 It can dance.

02:12 It can walk.

02:14 It can do whatever you want to do.

02:16 Humanoid means it has a little bit of human touch.

02:20 This is what we talk about when we

02:22 talk about a humanoid robot, meaning

02:24 a robot that has two arms, legs, and a head.

02:27 On the other side, of course, we have service robots,

02:30 meaning robots that will drive around in a shop

02:33 and have a screen and will explain you about any product

02:37 that you would like to purchase.

02:38 But these are not robots that you want to hold and say,

02:42 OK, I'm going to hug you.

02:44 With the Nau, with our solution, and we call it Nau Zora

02:48 solution, it's really a huggable robot that you want to take.

02:52 And you see the kids also taking in their arms and saying,

02:56 well, I love you.

02:56 So that's nice.

02:58 We don't have any robot at this point

03:00 that has not even 1% of the intelligence of a human that

03:05 would be able to replace any human whatsoever.

03:08 What the robots can do is repetitive tasks.

03:11 So they can do what you don't like to do,

03:13 what I don't like to do.

03:14 So to give you more spare time to do more important things.

03:18 And that's where the robots are meant to be,

03:21 not to replace humans, but to help humans, to assist humans.

03:25 If you are entering a technological shop or a museum

03:32 and you have a question about a very specific item,

03:35 it is impossible for a human to have everything

03:39 stored of every item that is present in that place.

03:42 For a robot, it's different.

03:44 It's all about data.

03:45 So that is what the robot does.

03:47 It's actually not replacing humans.

03:49 He's not going to give any warm feelings to any humans.

03:53 He's not even going to give any emotions.

03:56 What he's going to do is provide you

03:57 with simple, correct information.

04:00 So a robot is not intelligent.

04:02 We're not talking about artificial intelligence.

04:05 Artificial intelligence is data that you put in the robot

04:08 that he's storing and that he's using when you

04:10 are asking that specific data.

04:13 But he does not have the ability to do some freewheeling

04:17 to decide for himself to say what he wants,

04:20 when he wants, and so on.

04:22 So I have control of the robot, and I

04:24 can ask him anything to do.

04:27 One thing he's now going to do, he's going to present himself.

04:30 Hello.

04:31 My name is Zora.

04:34 I'm a humanoid robot imagined and programmed by Zorabots.

04:39 I come with the software, and I'm fully programmable.

04:45 I'm autonomous, and I can connect to the internet

04:48 via Wi-Fi.

04:51 I can recognize your face, answer your questions,

04:54 play music, grab objects, and even play soccer like a pro.

04:59 So about Zora itself, about this robot,

05:07 you will always have a tablet where you are in control.

05:10 So you're like in a control room where

05:13 you will be able to say to the robot, OK, stand up,

05:16 walk to that point.

05:18 And you are going to be able, through the tablet,

05:21 to actually put the robot in a certain direction.

05:24 When you arrive to a certain point, also with your tablet,

05:27 you will be able to type some sentences

05:30 that you want the robot to ask.

05:32 And what is happening, for instance, in Europe,

05:34 in some hospitals, is that you have elderly people that

05:37 don't really trust the doctor anymore,

05:40 because they feel like, I get too much medicine.

05:43 I don't feel well, and so on.

05:45 They are going to tell some things to the robot,

05:47 but not to humans.

05:49 My feeling for Rwanda, and for Africa in general,

05:53 but mainly for Rwanda, I'm not here to sell robots.

05:56 I mean, I don't feel that there is a need for robots here

06:01 in Rwanda on a daily task.

06:03 What I'm here for is to provide children the education

06:07 with the software in order for them

06:09 to be prepared to the revolution, 4.0 revolution

06:12 that is coming.

06:14 The robot we are talking about is

06:15 a robot that is ideal for an educational environment,

06:18 in order to have children to start programming

06:21 on their robots, to know how the robot must work.

06:26 The next generation of robots will be the robots

06:28 that people will use at home.

06:30 Now we are starting already with the robots

06:33 that are cleaning in the homes.

06:36 That's only a very small start.

06:39 The future robots will definitely

06:40 come in order to help on daily tasks, but it's not ready yet.

06:44 The purpose of the robots coming is actually

06:46 to make your life and to give you a better life, much more

06:52 time.

06:53 Not a better life that you will be

06:54 able to sit in front of television

06:56 and don't do anything anymore for the whole day.

06:59 You will spend your time to more important things,

07:02 whether it is time with your family, with your kids,

07:05 help them in anything.

07:07 Maybe work, making possibilities

07:10 for more important things.

07:12 The robots will be there to do repetitive tasks.

07:15 And in order to help you when you come at home,

07:18 to prepare some things, to make sure that your home is clean,

07:21 to make sure that your parents are not alone,

07:24 that loneliness is a big issue.

07:26 But being able to communicate through robots

07:29 to have daily and quality time.

07:33 (dramatic music)

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