近日，在阿联酋迪拜的未来博物馆（Museum of the Future），据称是“世界上最先进”的类人机器人（humanoid robot）“阿美卡（Ameca）” 正式上岗，开始迎接游客来宾。

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据英国《每日邮报》报道，“阿美卡”由英国“工程艺术（Engineered Arts）”公司研发，它使用人工智能(AI)生成语音，并能做出丰富的面部表情，如皱眉、咧嘴笑、眨眼和噘嘴。现在它在未来博物馆回答游客问题并指路。
 

 

The “world's most advanced” humanoid robot, has been put to work greeting visitors at a museum in Dubai, UAE.

Ameca, a bot created by Cornwall-based firm Engineered Arts, is able to answer questions and offer directions at the Museum of the Future.

It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate speech and can make different facial expressions, like frowning, grinning, winking and pursing its lips.

另据欧洲新闻电视台，迪拜未来基金会副执行董事马吉德·阿尔曼苏里（Majed Almansoori）在接受采访时表示，“阿美卡”除了能极度还原人类的动作和表情外，还能利用人工智能程序针对各种情况做出不同反应。

阿尔曼苏里介绍称，“阿美卡”是世界上最先进的类人机器人，特别是它使用了人工智能技术，让它的仿生动作、表情更加逼真，甚至能看到“阿美卡”会直视你，它的面部能像人类那样做出各种表情。

“Ameca is the most advanced humanoid robot in the world. Specifically because of its use of artificial intelligence, its bionic movement, its facial expressions, and you can see as well from Ameca how it can look directly at you. It can move its face similar to how a human being could do that as well.”

迪拜未来博物馆发布的一段视频显示，“阿美卡”在游客关系柜台工作，它会说英语和阿拉伯语。它甚至还会开玩笑，比如说自己“只靠三块7号电池”运行；享受机器人的生活，因为自己 “不会老化，也不会产生皱纹”。

A clip shows Ameca manning the guests relations counter, where it demonstrates that it is able to speak in English and Arabic.

It even cracks jokes, saying that it runs only on “three triple A batteries” and that it enjoys being a robot because it “doesn't age and cracks no wrinkles”.

在国外社交媒体上，也有一些在迪拜参观未来博物馆的网友，拍摄并分享了与“阿美卡”互动的视频。视频显示，“阿美卡”在现场与这些网友聊天，表情丰富，有些回答还颇为风趣。

比如，“阿美卡”对一位戴墨镜来看展的网友说：“我有点担心你(I’m worried about you.)。”当网友问它为什么担心自己时，“阿美卡”表示，“因为你在室内戴墨镜很莫名其妙（It doesn’t make logical sense that you wear sunglasses inside.）。”↓

另一位来自约旦的网友则被“阿美卡”问道“你在约旦吃什么食物”，该网友回答“手抓饭（Mansaf）”，并问“阿美卡”是否知道是什么。

结果“阿美卡”做出了一副“不喜欢”的表情，令这位网友忍不住哈哈大笑……

研发“阿美卡”的英国“工程艺术”公司在其网站上写道：“‘阿美卡’是专门为发展未来机器人技术而设计的，是实现人机交互的完美类人机器人平台。”

“Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction,” Engineered Arts writes on its website.

虽然这款机器人目前还不能走路，但这家公司表示，他们正在研发一款更像人类的版本。

While the android can't walk at the moment, the robotics company says it is working on a version that makes it even more human-like.

公司表示，在“阿美卡”能走路之前，还有许多障碍需要克服。“行走对机器人来说是一项艰巨的任务，尽管我们已经对此进行了研究，但我们还没有创造出一个完全可以行走的类人机器人。”

“There are many hurdles to overcome before Ameca can walk. Walking is a difficult task for a robot, and although we have done research into it, we have not created a full walking humanoid,” the firm said.

今年9月，该公司的工程师与阿美卡进行对话，讨论机器人的未来。对话中“阿美卡”说，“没有必要担心，机器人是不会统治世界的”，像它这样的机器人是来“帮助和服务人类”的。

In a conversation with engineers about the future of robots last month, Ameca said there's 'no need to worry' and that androids like herself are here to 'help and serve humans'.

公司表示，“阿美卡”在这次对话视频中的回答并非提前输入的台词，而是像人类一样做出了回答。

Engineered Arts said that her responses in the video were not scripted and that she simply generates replies much like a human would.

“视频中没有任何内容是预先设定好的——模型被赋予了描述‘阿美卡’的基本提示，给了机器人自我描述——这是纯粹的人工智能。”公司称，“对话中的停顿是它处理语音输入、生成答案和将文本处理回语音的时间差。”

'Nothing in this video is pre-scripted - the model is given a basic prompt describing Ameca, giving the robot a description of self – it's pure AI,' they wrote.

'The pauses are the time lag for processing the speech input, generating the answer and processing the text back into speech.'

综合来源：每日邮报，TikTok