Service Robots are coming to Silicon Valley CA

                                                                               Sam Shueh

                                                                  Realty One Group

                                                                   Silicon Valley, CA

An experienced supervisor often walks up and down the supermarket aisles with her eyes and a clip board. Her days about to be numbered.

A robot starting appearing in Silicon Valley to move up and down the aisles equipped with sensors and laser/ camera and wireless device is now connected to the market database to confirm the quantity on hand and any items out of order.  It glides through busy aisles, alerting customers to its presence with soft bird chirps. Did Twitter invest and get into artificial intelligence business.  Not quite. But a number of social media companies in Silicon Valley are putting their cash into a technology that has opportunities to change the world.

                                         Supermarket robot in Silicon Valley

Likewise, in Sunnyvale, CA at a Lowes Home Improvements, a proto-type inventory attendant developed by Bossa Nova Robotics went to work. It needs a new battery charge and software update occasionary. It does not take a break or demand over time pay. It does not chat look at the pretty girls and does what it was programmed to do.  

The Valley has at least 19 companies designing auto driving automobiles today. There are a number of robots using artificial intelligence technology including bellhops and aerial drones being commercialized. A survey conducted by Oxford University about 47% US jobs can be handled by robots. IBM has been carefully using words like complement workers skills with its Watson technology without referring to why 1,000s of its workers are asked to leave.

Else where the social media companies are also jump on the wagon getting into artificial intelligence. Remember Siri from iPhone? Facebook is using AIT to improve products. Amazon got its Echo (Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker).

Aloft hotel robot video, Cupertino, CA across from Apple existing headquarter has tried out and contemplating put it there created by Google (Hotel robots at Aloft).

                                                  Japanese greeting robot

I have been saying robots can do a lot more and in very distant future that one will see a robot at realtors office or open house greeting guests. The Japanese robots can speak English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Can a human handle that for less pay and with no break, or vacation? Hisako says, I am not programmed to clean the mess after the open house.  Apps programmer went back to India.