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Advances in robotics are allowing automate jobs in some industries, which has opened the debate about whether humans replaced or not some of these positions. In this paper all the development that is occurring in the robotics industry is analyzed.
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INNOVATION TRENDS SERIE
Robots friends ornightmare
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
ROBOTSHOW ROBOTICS WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES
02
01
04
03INFOGRAPHIC
The evolution of Robots
Robot fever
05INTERVIEW
ldquoRobots arent a threat
and theyre not going to
replace peoplerdquo
Robots friendsor nightmare
01
China is set to lead the global production of
robots followed by Europe and USA But the
debate over the potential benefits and risks of
humanoids is already raging ( )
The robotics revolution is supposed to come in 2030
but you wont need to wait that long to see signs of
coexistence between humans and robots In two years
China will lead global robot production churning out
close to 400000 units well ahead of the 340000 that
Europe is expected to produce and the 300000 set to
be built in the United States according to figures
from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
Will robots become mans best friend or his nightmare This is the
question that is always raised whenever we see a boom in robotics
and all sorts of answers are always proffered According to the
scientist Stephen Hawkinghellip he cautioned in this interview for the
BBC
The physicist has been
warning of the risks inherent
in artificial intelligence for
years and this June he
presented a letter in Buenos
Aires that rallied against the
development of so called killer
robots The open letter
signed also by Apple co-
founder Steve Wozniak
founder of Tesla and co-
creator of PayPal Elon Musk
the linguist Noam Chomsky
and Demis Hassabis Chief
Executive of the Google
artificial intelligence firm
stated the concerns harbored
by thousands of scientists
due to the development of
autonomous military robots
capable of operating without
human intervention
Stephen Hawking
ldquoRobots represent a threat to humanity Humans who are limited by slowbiological evolution couldnt compete and would be superseded
ldquo
ldquoIt is only a matter of time
before the weapons end up in
the hands of terrorists and
warlords () autonomous
weapons have been described
as the third revolution in
warfare after gunpowder and
nuclear arms () autonomous
weapons are ideal for tasks
such as assassinations
destabilizing nations subduing
populations and selectively
killing a particular ethnic group
() Starting a military AI arms
race is a bad idea warns the
letter
Although Hawking is not
entirely against humanoids and
admits that the potential
benefits could be enormous
he cautions that current robot
development is channeled
more toward the destruction of
people ldquoArtificial intelligence
could serve to eradicate war
disease and poverty from the
world However we are seeing
priority given to investments
that will usher in an arms racerdquo
he said
Leaving aside military purposes
and concentrating instead on
industrial uses this report from
the Pew Research Center
based on interviews with
around 2000 tech experts
scientists and academics
found that half of those
surveyed believe that
machines will perform much of
the tasks now done by
humans while the other half
expect robots to create more
jobs The report concluded
that 2025 will be the year in
which robots play a very
significant role in
peoples lives A more recent
study found that humanoids
would take away 18 million
jobs in Germany within 20
years
Rodolphe Gelin Director of Aldebaran Robots is more
optimistic He points out that humanoids have
a heart and will represent the backbone of smart
homes controlling lighting temperature cleaning and
food providing the chief interface for operating
electronic appliances
Aldebarans robots are social and programmed to learn
humans habits and intervene when necessary Their
artificial intelligence allows them to interact with people
via voice and even recognize emotions According to
Gelin the fears that robots arouse are unjustified Like
any object or technology developed by man robots
could pose a threat to humanity Fire cars electricity
nuclear energy and even writing can do both good and
bad for humanity It all depends on what you do with it
Robots intrinsically do not pose a danger to humanity
The human robot ( )
Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
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200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
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Robots friendsor nightmare
01
China is set to lead the global production of
robots followed by Europe and USA But the
debate over the potential benefits and risks of
humanoids is already raging ( )
The robotics revolution is supposed to come in 2030
but you wont need to wait that long to see signs of
coexistence between humans and robots In two years
China will lead global robot production churning out
close to 400000 units well ahead of the 340000 that
Europe is expected to produce and the 300000 set to
be built in the United States according to figures
from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
Will robots become mans best friend or his nightmare This is the
question that is always raised whenever we see a boom in robotics
and all sorts of answers are always proffered According to the
scientist Stephen Hawkinghellip he cautioned in this interview for the
BBC
The physicist has been
warning of the risks inherent
in artificial intelligence for
years and this June he
presented a letter in Buenos
Aires that rallied against the
development of so called killer
robots The open letter
signed also by Apple co-
founder Steve Wozniak
founder of Tesla and co-
creator of PayPal Elon Musk
the linguist Noam Chomsky
and Demis Hassabis Chief
Executive of the Google
artificial intelligence firm
stated the concerns harbored
by thousands of scientists
due to the development of
autonomous military robots
capable of operating without
human intervention
Stephen Hawking
ldquoRobots represent a threat to humanity Humans who are limited by slowbiological evolution couldnt compete and would be superseded
ldquo
ldquoIt is only a matter of time
before the weapons end up in
the hands of terrorists and
warlords () autonomous
weapons have been described
as the third revolution in
warfare after gunpowder and
nuclear arms () autonomous
weapons are ideal for tasks
such as assassinations
destabilizing nations subduing
populations and selectively
killing a particular ethnic group
() Starting a military AI arms
race is a bad idea warns the
letter
Although Hawking is not
entirely against humanoids and
admits that the potential
benefits could be enormous
he cautions that current robot
development is channeled
more toward the destruction of
people ldquoArtificial intelligence
could serve to eradicate war
disease and poverty from the
world However we are seeing
priority given to investments
that will usher in an arms racerdquo
he said
Leaving aside military purposes
and concentrating instead on
industrial uses this report from
the Pew Research Center
based on interviews with
around 2000 tech experts
scientists and academics
found that half of those
surveyed believe that
machines will perform much of
the tasks now done by
humans while the other half
expect robots to create more
jobs The report concluded
that 2025 will be the year in
which robots play a very
significant role in
peoples lives A more recent
study found that humanoids
would take away 18 million
jobs in Germany within 20
years
Rodolphe Gelin Director of Aldebaran Robots is more
optimistic He points out that humanoids have
a heart and will represent the backbone of smart
homes controlling lighting temperature cleaning and
food providing the chief interface for operating
electronic appliances
Aldebarans robots are social and programmed to learn
humans habits and intervene when necessary Their
artificial intelligence allows them to interact with people
via voice and even recognize emotions According to
Gelin the fears that robots arouse are unjustified Like
any object or technology developed by man robots
could pose a threat to humanity Fire cars electricity
nuclear energy and even writing can do both good and
bad for humanity It all depends on what you do with it
Robots intrinsically do not pose a danger to humanity
The human robot ( )
Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
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Will robots become mans best friend or his nightmare This is the
question that is always raised whenever we see a boom in robotics
and all sorts of answers are always proffered According to the
scientist Stephen Hawkinghellip he cautioned in this interview for the
BBC
The physicist has been
warning of the risks inherent
in artificial intelligence for
years and this June he
presented a letter in Buenos
Aires that rallied against the
development of so called killer
robots The open letter
signed also by Apple co-
founder Steve Wozniak
founder of Tesla and co-
creator of PayPal Elon Musk
the linguist Noam Chomsky
and Demis Hassabis Chief
Executive of the Google
artificial intelligence firm
stated the concerns harbored
by thousands of scientists
due to the development of
autonomous military robots
capable of operating without
human intervention
Stephen Hawking
ldquoRobots represent a threat to humanity Humans who are limited by slowbiological evolution couldnt compete and would be superseded
ldquo
ldquoIt is only a matter of time
before the weapons end up in
the hands of terrorists and
warlords () autonomous
weapons have been described
as the third revolution in
warfare after gunpowder and
nuclear arms () autonomous
weapons are ideal for tasks
such as assassinations
destabilizing nations subduing
populations and selectively
killing a particular ethnic group
() Starting a military AI arms
race is a bad idea warns the
letter
Although Hawking is not
entirely against humanoids and
admits that the potential
benefits could be enormous
he cautions that current robot
development is channeled
more toward the destruction of
people ldquoArtificial intelligence
could serve to eradicate war
disease and poverty from the
world However we are seeing
priority given to investments
that will usher in an arms racerdquo
he said
Leaving aside military purposes
and concentrating instead on
industrial uses this report from
the Pew Research Center
based on interviews with
around 2000 tech experts
scientists and academics
found that half of those
surveyed believe that
machines will perform much of
the tasks now done by
humans while the other half
expect robots to create more
jobs The report concluded
that 2025 will be the year in
which robots play a very
significant role in
peoples lives A more recent
study found that humanoids
would take away 18 million
jobs in Germany within 20
years
Rodolphe Gelin Director of Aldebaran Robots is more
optimistic He points out that humanoids have
a heart and will represent the backbone of smart
homes controlling lighting temperature cleaning and
food providing the chief interface for operating
electronic appliances
Aldebarans robots are social and programmed to learn
humans habits and intervene when necessary Their
artificial intelligence allows them to interact with people
via voice and even recognize emotions According to
Gelin the fears that robots arouse are unjustified Like
any object or technology developed by man robots
could pose a threat to humanity Fire cars electricity
nuclear energy and even writing can do both good and
bad for humanity It all depends on what you do with it
Robots intrinsically do not pose a danger to humanity
The human robot ( )
Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
ldquoIt is only a matter of time
before the weapons end up in
the hands of terrorists and
warlords () autonomous
weapons have been described
as the third revolution in
warfare after gunpowder and
nuclear arms () autonomous
weapons are ideal for tasks
such as assassinations
destabilizing nations subduing
populations and selectively
killing a particular ethnic group
() Starting a military AI arms
race is a bad idea warns the
letter
Although Hawking is not
entirely against humanoids and
admits that the potential
benefits could be enormous
he cautions that current robot
development is channeled
more toward the destruction of
people ldquoArtificial intelligence
could serve to eradicate war
disease and poverty from the
world However we are seeing
priority given to investments
that will usher in an arms racerdquo
he said
Leaving aside military purposes
and concentrating instead on
industrial uses this report from
the Pew Research Center
based on interviews with
around 2000 tech experts
scientists and academics
found that half of those
surveyed believe that
machines will perform much of
the tasks now done by
humans while the other half
expect robots to create more
jobs The report concluded
that 2025 will be the year in
which robots play a very
significant role in
peoples lives A more recent
study found that humanoids
would take away 18 million
jobs in Germany within 20
years
Rodolphe Gelin Director of Aldebaran Robots is more
optimistic He points out that humanoids have
a heart and will represent the backbone of smart
homes controlling lighting temperature cleaning and
food providing the chief interface for operating
electronic appliances
Aldebarans robots are social and programmed to learn
humans habits and intervene when necessary Their
artificial intelligence allows them to interact with people
via voice and even recognize emotions According to
Gelin the fears that robots arouse are unjustified Like
any object or technology developed by man robots
could pose a threat to humanity Fire cars electricity
nuclear energy and even writing can do both good and
bad for humanity It all depends on what you do with it
Robots intrinsically do not pose a danger to humanity
The human robot ( )
Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
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200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
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1000000
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750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
Rodolphe Gelin Director of Aldebaran Robots is more
optimistic He points out that humanoids have
a heart and will represent the backbone of smart
homes controlling lighting temperature cleaning and
food providing the chief interface for operating
electronic appliances
Aldebarans robots are social and programmed to learn
humans habits and intervene when necessary Their
artificial intelligence allows them to interact with people
via voice and even recognize emotions According to
Gelin the fears that robots arouse are unjustified Like
any object or technology developed by man robots
could pose a threat to humanity Fire cars electricity
nuclear energy and even writing can do both good and
bad for humanity It all depends on what you do with it
Robots intrinsically do not pose a danger to humanity
The human robot ( )
Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
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the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
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will find all key facts analysis
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experts and infographics to
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Instead he believes ldquorobots will
build a better future They will
bring out the best in people
There are fears such as of a
spontaneous robot rebellion or
robots being put to bad use as
a result of piracy But such
problems are not specific to
robots they apply to all smart
objects with which we interact
( ) Computer researchers
specialists in IT security and
even attorneys are working to
resolve such problems even
before we begin living with
robots It is very important that
everyone understand the
foundations of robots Fear is
often born of ignorance If
every child is made familiar
with robots just as they are
taught to use the Internet
properly they will dominate
robotics And the future of
robotics will be in good hands
those of the people he
concludes
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
In 1942 science-fiction acclaimed writer and scientific dissemination
essayist Isaac Asimov established in his short story Runaround the Three
Laws of Robotics that every robot should be programmed to respect
The Three Laws of Robotics
A robot must protect
its own existence as
long as such
protection does not
conflict with the First
or Second Laws
A robot may not injure
a human being or
through inaction allow
a human being to
come to harm
A robot must obey the
orders given it by
human beings except
where such orders
would conflict with the
First Law
These laws were
complemented with the
addition of the Zeroth
Law that appeared on
Asimovs work The
Bicentennial Man
stating A robot may not
harm humanity or by
inaction allow humanity
to come to harm
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
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175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
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25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
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605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
In 2011 the most prominent engineering organizations in the United Kingdom published five ethical
principles of robotics for robot designers and engineers to comply with
Robots should not be
designed solely or
primarily to kill or harm
humans
Robots are manufactured
artefacts They should
not be designed in a
deceptive way to exploit
vulnerable users instead
their machine nature
should be transparent
Humans not robots
are responsible agents
Robots are tools
designed to achieve
human goals
Robots are products
They should be
designed using
processes which assure
their safety and
security
The person with legal
responsibility for a
robot should be
attributed
Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
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Robots in the spotlightof the big technologycompanies
02
Artificial intelligence projects have moved $20 billion in the last
five years An example of this trend is Google which has bought a
dozen robotics companies in just three years ( )
Fad or serious commitment
Robotics is attractive to large
companies and what appeared
to be a whim of their CEOs is
emerging as one of the sectors
to track in the coming years
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
2013 was the year that
Google placed its focus - and
money - on robotics with the
acquisition of numerous
companies It finished the year
by purchasing Boston
Dynamics one of the market
leaders which provides
services to the Pentagon and
has a star among its ranks
Cheetah robot which is faster
than Usain Bolt
Googles obsession with robots
has not diminished in recent
years In 2014 it bought the
British company specializing in
artificial intelligence DeepMind
Technologies for $400 million
In 2015 one of the latest
operations of the Mountain
View company in the field of
industrial robotics was the
agreement with the American
pharmaceutical group Johnson
amp Johnson to manufacture
surgical robots
The advantages for patients of
surgeries performed by robots
controlled by doctors are
high-precision and less-invasive
operations
Human errors cause between
44000 and 98000 patient
deaths annually in the United
States according to the MRI
Technology School
Although Google seems to be
more directed toward
industrial robotics it doesnt
want to leave out the social
aspect
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
At mid-year it registered the
Methods and systems for
robot personality
development patent to
customize the robots that may
be programmed to take on
the personality of a person
from the real world (such as
user behavior a deceased
loved one or a celebrity) and
take on the character traits of
people emulated by a robot
That personality could be
transferred from one robot to
another or shared among
several through cloud-based
computing This way a user
could travel to another city and
download the personality of his
or her own home robot into a
robot based in the other
location Robotic personality
would thus become
something transportable
and transferablerdquo ( )
Projects related to artificial
intelligence have accounted for
almost $20 billion dollars
(around 18 billion euros) since
2009 but some have come
with much controversy Several
intellectuals and scientists
warned against so-called killer
robotsrdquo Stephen Hawking at
the head Bill Gates was very
concerned about the threat of
artificial intelligence
Although some people are not
as critical as informed in this
article published in El Paiacutes that
includes the reflections of the
researcher at the University of
Toronto Hector Levesque
ldquoTodays computers are
downright stupid
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
For example if you ask Joan
thanked Susan for all the help
she had given Who gave the
help Joan or Susan Google
cant answer that question
Thats the ghost missing from
the machine common sense
Sadly much of the research on
artificial intelligence conducted
these days is content with
systems that only read massive
amounts of data without any
sense These are the systems
that should scare us Those
that are autonomous but have
no common sense
Facebook is confident ( ) in
the common sense of robots
and tests conducted by the
laboratory developing new
intelligence led by the French
researcher LeCun The US
company hired the renowned
scientist whose mission is to
produce software with the
language skills and common
sense necessary to maintain a
basic conversation
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
Instead of having to communicate with machines
by pressing buttons or entering carefully-selected
search terms we could say what we want as if we
were talking to another person Our relationship
with the digital world will completely change
through intelligent agents with which you can
interact he predicts He believes that deep
learning can produce software that understands
our sentences and is able to respond with
appropriate answers clarifying questions or
making their own suggestions as noted in this
report in Technology Review
Both Facebook and Google seem to be clear that
the future is in the hands of robots provided they
are always controlled by humans
The evolution of robots
03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
Share on Pinterest
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
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03INFOGRAPHIC
The enormous progress being made in robotics has seenjobs in some industries being automated which has sparked a debate on whether robots might eventuallyreplace humans
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200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
The new
Robots
COMPANYRethink Robotics
HEIGHT 190 cm
Designed to support
programming and provide
flexibility to small
manufacturers
COMPANY Boston
Dinamics Google
HEIGHT 188 cm
The DRC workhorse used
by US teams with a
range of software
COMPANY Willow
Garage
HEIGHT 165 cm
An advanced personal service
robot used chiefly in
laboratories
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Google
HEIGHT 146 cm
Designed to complete tasks
with its hands supported
by extensive Japanese
expertise in humanoid
robots
COMPANY KUKA
HEIGHT 203 cm
Industrial robots used in
the worlds most
advanced factories
COMPANY Kaist
HEIGHT 130 cm
Developed as a platform
for a range of research
projects
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY NASA - JPL
HEIGHT 120 - 170 cm
An experimental robot with
multiple use limbs built
based on identical tracking
COMPANY Honda
HEIGHT 120 cm
The most recent Honda
creation is used for
practical applications
COMPANY Aethon
HEIGHT 120 cm
Automated hauler and
transport robot without
charisma used in hospitals
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY Unbounded
Robotics
HEIGHT 97 cm
A one-armed robot capable
of performing a series of
tasks
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 200 cm
A robot that demonstrated
its value helping to defuse
improvised explosive
devices in Iraq and
Afghanistan
COMPANY AIST
HEIGHT 57 cm
Provides company to
senior citizens with
therapeutic and social
benefits
200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
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200
175
150
100
75
50
25
0
COMPANY iRobot
HEIGHT 35 cm
The worlds most popular cleaning
robot since 2002
COMPANY DJI
HEIGHT 35 cm
Able to fly to any location using a system
of cameras opening new markets and
attracting new fans
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
1200000
1000000
932000
750000
605000
454000
2014
2010
2005
2002
1995
1990
The global robotics industry
In 2013 there was one robot for every 5000 workers
Robots in numbers
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
454000
Robot density
The number of robotic workers is growing For example in Japan for every
1000 workers there are 34 industrial robots performing similar tasks
Other
97
Optics
9
Food
15
Communication
25
Metal
37
Non-specific
25
Automotive
331
Electricity
99
Chemistry
94
Machinery
43
July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
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PREVIOUS ISSUES
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in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
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The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
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July 2015 The Henn Na hotel
or ldquoWeird Hotelrdquo has opened
The news is in all of around the
world It is the first
establishment where robots
attend to guests It costs 66
euros to stay the night
surrounded by androids who
although cannot make the bed
do not ask for a wage and can
work without a break seven
days a week 24 hours a day
Henn Na is a good example of
robot fever in Japan The
country one of the leading
countries in terms of robots
continues to focus on this
technology A month ahead of
the opening of the ldquoWeird
Hotelrdquo the robot called Pepper
had sold out just one minute
after it went up for sale Its
price 1500 euros did not
stop the madness over this
Robot fever
04Around 320 million workers could be replaced by robots everywhere
in the world There is a proliferation of studies that analyze the
economic impact of robots which could surpass 17 trillion dollars
by 2025 in the health manufacturing and services sectors among
others ( )
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
small android --120 centimeters
tall weighing 28 kilos and a
14-hour battery-- which can
interpret emotions and interact
with people
Depending on the emotion at
the time Pepper talks more
loudly or sighs relaxes around
people it knows is pleased
when it receives a compliment
or is frightened when the lights
go out explain its creators On
top of the initial price it costs
177 euros a month for three
years to connect to the cloud
which allows Pepper to keep
up its learning with the rest of
the Peppers on the market
This pushes its price up to a
grand total of 8000 euros
Although it was initially
designed with families in
mind Pepper can also attend
to clients at Japanese
establishments The country
which has an unemployment
rate of 33 is struggling to
alleviate the aging of its
population Japan has around
127 million people Out of
them only 128 are less than
14 years old The Japanese
government estimates that by
2060 the population will total
86 million people 40 over
65 years old That is why it is
looking to robots to make up
for the lack of workforce
( )
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
centrodeinnovacionbbvacomen
BBVA is not resposible for the opinions expressed here in
Sign upTo keep up to date with the latest trends
The economic
impact of robots
The robot industry and
production automation
technology rose by 144
compared to 2014 although
not only Japan is experiencing
a robot revolution A study by
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
reveals that robots will replace
factory workers at a faster rate
than expected over the next
decade bringing labor costs
down by 16 Investment in
robots will rise by 10 a year
in the 25 main exporting
countries by 2025 ( )
ldquoConnected and capable of
resolving complex problems
the new generation of robots
will be able to take on 25 of
automated tasks versus the
10 that traditional robots
currently performrdquo according
to the study which goes on to
say that over the next 10 years
investment in robots will total
60000 million euros
compared to 25000 million
this year
Using robots will bring down
labor costs by 33 in South
Korea 25 in Japan 24 in
Canadaand 22 in the United
States and Taiwan Just 10 of
jobs that can be automated are
currently performed by robots
In 2025 machines will
account for more than 23 of
these job posts according to
forecasts by Boston Consulting
Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
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the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
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Regarding their efficiency
another study ldquoThe robots are
comingrdquo by Deloitte highlights
that robots have an error
margin of 002 and adds that
they can perform any rule-
based repetitive process
subject to human error with
peak workloads that require
night shifts or overtime and are
not essential for the company
According to Deloitte ldquothe
reality is that automation and
robots lower costs and are
quick to implement because it
only takes two to four weeks to
automate any processrdquo Deloitte
explains that in the UK a robot
costs a ninth of the total cost
of an employee
McKinsey estimates that the
invasion of robots will have an
economic impact of 17-45
trillion dollars by 2025 in
sectors such as health
manufacturing and services
and that in the medium-term
some 320 million workers could
be replaced by robots
everywhere in the world The
robot revolution seems to be a
serious thing this time
Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
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The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
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Robots arent a threat and theyre not going to replace people
05INTERVIEW
Luis Moreno professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid emphasizes that although countriesare going to demand more robots it wont result in a process for replacing people ( )
Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
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The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
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Luis Moreno robotics expert
and professor at the Carlos III
University in Madrid works on
developing exoskeletons for
restoration manipulating
artificial hands to give them a
human sensitivity and on
differentautonomous systems
so as robots can calculate
routes avoid walls and
obstacles and even find paths
on Mars
Whats the challenge of
robotics ( )
There are quite a few
challenges The old mobile
robotics vehicles with sensors
that move with a certain
understanding of the
environment and avoid
obstacles is going to be
applied in two fields the
vehicles field (Google) and
space exploration which is a
less visible field
Another field is the service
robot or the so-called social
robots They dont have a great
ability to handle things but
they have many qualities for
social relationships Theyre
able to synthesize speech and
understand part of what is
being said with obvious
limitations This is reaching
hospitals for Alzheimer patients
and hotels and a lot of work is
being put into the exoskeleton
or humanoid part
What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
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The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
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The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
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What do you think about
Google purchasing dozens of
robotics companies over the
last few years
Googles purchase sounds
amazing because its Google
but all the technology thats
currently on the market such
as the automatic parking of
cars is what robotics
laboratories were doing in the
80sGoogles case is highly
publicized but to give you an
example years ago we had a
car in Madrid that came down
from the mountain to the city
on its own The technology was
already mature and Google
hasnt done any marvelous
research although whats being
done isnt at all bad as its not
easy to put this technology on
the market
What problems is robotics
facing
Robotics is a bank of integration
for any technology Its facing
energy problems and actuator
problemsWe cant develop
robots that are more
sophisticated or that have more
human skills because the
actuators we have are still
engines mainly electric
Another challenge is
understanding situations
Making a robot understand
Another huge problem we are
facing is how to teach them
Programming a robots activity
is very complicated and
nowadays you pretty much
need an engineer to be with it
continuously and every
laboratory around the world is
trying to teach robots Learning
things is a challenge although
we mustnt forget about the
sensory part
SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
generation
The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
Follow us
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SERIE INNOVATION TRENDS middot SEPTIEMBRE 2015 middot wwwcentrodeinnovacionbbvacom
At present we arent able to
develop anything equivalent to
a human hand in terms of
ability sensitivity and strength
Sensors have their limitations
for example robots can only
see between 7 and 8 meters of
volumetric image
Are robots going to replace
people in day-to-day jobs ( )
No The most robotic countries
are the richest countries and
those that have the highest
levels of employment Japan
Korea and the United States for
example dont use robots to
replace people and they arent
interested in doing so Robots
are expensive very expensive
and they are used to improve
product quality The car
industry didnt introduce robots
to
replace people possibly
because robots are much more
expensive However robots can
weld with a very high precision
Theyre not going to replace
people The most automated
countries tend to produce
products with a higher quality
they sell more products around
the world and therefore have
more wealth and employment
Thats the reality
So robots arent a threat
I donrsquot think so Countries are
going to demand more robots
This is the case for example of
Japan with social robots They
dont replace anyone they
accompany patients they
check their health they remind
them to take their medication
they chat to each other They
dont replace anyone because
no one else is doing that
Exoskeletons arent going to fire
anyone The person who gives
them the job will be in
chargeThe feeling of threat
isnt real right now
China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
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in our homes in our business
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China
What country will lead
robotization over the next few
years
China will become robotic but
not to fire people It will do so
because many of its products
arent of a very high quality
China will become more clearly
robotic over the next twenty
years It has an industry that
needs to produce higher
quality It cant continue to just
sell cheap products It will have
to become roboticsince human
hands cant assemble products
with a high quality
And how do you see Europe
Germany is very robotic and
France Italy and Spain have
good levels especially in certain
industries such as cars and
electronics Theyre not doing
badly at all
Latin America
Latin America still doesnt have
a huge manufacturing industry
which is where robotics come
in The level is lower due to the
type of industry and they dont
have a high need
What do you think about the
controversy of the so-called
killer robots
Every technology thats
developed around the world has
a double use Drones dont
shoot by themselvesBehind
each robot is a person thats
programming its movements
and actions Vaccinations can
be used to kill or cure
Everything not just robots can
be used in one way or another
for good or for bad
BBVA Innovation Center creates
the Innovation Trends Series
to keep you updated with
cutting edge innovation trends
and their appliance to your
everyday life In this papers you
will find all key facts analysis
case studies interviews with
experts and infographics to
visualize the data that each and
every trend describes
SERIEINNOVATIONTRENDS
share
PREVIOUS ISSUES
The web is now ubiquitous
in our homes in our business
Total immersion in a real world
increasingly
This is the first digital
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The hour of democratizationof the three dimension
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