Every Christmas, the Royal Academy of Sciences brings a new scientific lecture to young audiences. This lecture has also become the trump card in the BBC science series, and is sought after by people who love science all over the world.
This Christmas lecture initiated by Faraday in 1825 will select the most advanced natural sciences to explore the main line every year. For example, in 2015 they discussed "How to Survive in Space" and in 2016, "Overrun Energy Storage Drives the Future" 》. In 2017, they chose the topic "Art of Life" related to artificial intelligence without any suspense.
More specifically, the Royal Academy of Sciences specially invited Emotech, a British startup with Chinese descent, to explore the relationship between intelligent robotic language and emotion and human language complexity. The main product of the startup company established in 2014 is an emotional robot called OLLY.
The invitation of the Royal Academy of Sciences gave Emotech a rewarding 2017 with a perfect ending. However, why this three-year-old artificial intelligence startup can become a guest of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Europe, where the masters are famous. After reading what it did in 2017, it may be clear.
Developed speech emotion recognition to make robots more like people
“What is the weather like in London today?†At the beginning of the 2017 Royal Academy of Christmas lectures, the host asked OLLY in five different languages. OLLY directly projects the results on the big screen of the scene for different semantic and emotional analysis, and the young audience under the stage exclaims.
OLLY's "smart" response uses the acoustic model led by Emotech's scientist Raymond Ng. The principle is that robots don't need to interpret human discourse content, nor need to fine-tune different speakers, but let the robot By analyzing the speaker's tone, voice, and sound line strength, the speaker's emotional tendency is summarized.
This seems to be an interesting attempt. “Human emotions are very complicated and inexplicable. Our model can describe five emotions, neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful. We can get an answer by summarizing the scores of the five emotions. In fact, we are interested in It is a sufficient statistic of these acoustic information and a continuous measure of the assessment of emotions. These data can effectively understand the emotional tendency of the speaker, which is closely related to the different trends of the speaker's daily life,†explains Raymond Ng. Scientist Raymond Ng is an outstanding expert in tech naTIon in the UK. He led the research team of the University of Sheffield (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD) in various international recognition competitions for speech recognition technology. (There is no such thing in the material to avoid errors, please check Accurate statement). He is also responsible for research projects called "Universal Speech Recognition and Machine Translation Strategies."
As a social animal, people's desire for communication can't be stopped. Emotech's research seems to make OLLY's future more worthy of expectation. After all, if you can identify the emotions of the people in the communication, the robot will go further, in fact This is the beginning of Emotech's original business, and hopes to create an emotional robot.
The academic community also recognizes the breakthrough significance of emotion recognition for artificial intelligence. “Machine and computer have made breakthroughs in identifying human emotions in recent years. OLLY is one of the successful cases.†As the keynote speaker of the 2017 Christmas Lecture, Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of London Sophie Scott, deputy director and senior researcher at Wellcome Trust, said.
The startup's front-end research on voice emotions is an important reason why the Royal Academy of Sciences chose Emotech as a guest guest. But for Emotech, this is only part of its more innovative and commercialization efforts.
Olly can do this, based on his early design, he chose a technical route with a brain-like system and a proprietary psychology framework that has achieved excellent results in Turing tests. Emotech's core members, in addition to two Chinese co-founders Zhuang Hongbin and Chelsea, also include well-known team Google DeepMind experts, University of London, Imperial College and many other top university artificial intelligence professional outstanding doctoral students. John Shawe Taylor, Europe's most prestigious computer science professor at the University of London's Computer Statistics and Machine Learning Center, was also invited to be a project consultant.
This ensures that Olly can learn from the owner's behavior and form a unique personality that suits the specific owner. It can be more like a person and become a friend of the user.
Winning four awards to become the 2017 after CES Black Horse
In 2017, Emotech and Olly not only received high praise from the academic community, but also won many awards and recognitions in terms of commercialization and user experience.
At the beginning of the year, Olly participated in CES, the international consumer electronics exhibition in Las Vegas, USA, and seized “Smart Homeâ€, “Drone and Artificial Intelligenceâ€, “Home Appliancesâ€, “Home Audio/Video Components and Four innovation awards including accessories.
These awards not only recognize the innovation and breakthrough of Olly's artificial intelligence technology in the world, Emotech is also included in the history of the CES Best Innovation Award in the dark horse posture, Emotech is the first startup company to win the CES four awards. This also validates the correctness of co-founders Zhuang Hongbin and Chelsea, who chose to start a business in the UK and artificial intelligence.
Four months later, in May 2017, Chelsea initiated the establishment of the first international Meetup organization in London based on AI and AI entrepreneurship – “邂逅AIâ€, which regularly invites cutting-edge technology development, industry research and products in the field of artificial intelligence. The designers communicated with the AI ​​industry international entrepreneurship team and have successfully held 6 events so far, including “AI and crowdfundingâ€, “Emotion and Computingâ€, “Architectural and Intelligentâ€, “Machinery for Large Aerial Imagesâ€. Interesting and cross-border AI application topics.
Chelsea said that the original intention of setting up the "邂逅AI" platform is to open up the transformation channels of technology and academic achievements, and talents with commercial value. On the other hand, it also hopes to attract more professionals interested in AI to participate in the industry, and to provide more international and cutting-edge participation opportunities for young people who are interested in artificial intelligence and have special skills.
In July 2017, Emotech joined forces with universities to collaborate with the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics Institute. This collaboration is not purely academic, but also highly valued for commercialization and product management, and Emotech's future. Based on the company's R&D activities, the research team will combine the CMU robot system development master project to guide and promote the all-round development of the “Deeply EmoTIonal†project in academic research and commercial development.
It is understood that Emotech has various types of cooperation with Imperial College London, University College London, King's College London, Edinburgh University, Heriot-Watt University and other institutions.
In addition to these technology-based specialization discussions, Emotech's brand value has also greatly improved in 2017.
In June, Olly was selected as the main product by the British magazine BBC1's "Invented in..." documentary. Olly and the Emotech team were invited to participate in the filming of the documentary. At the same time, company co-founder Chelsea was invited to participate in the Cannes International Creative Festival, known as the Oscar for advertising, and talked about the impact of Olly's AI technology on human life.
“The emergence of Olly provides consumers with an unprecedented personalized experience. Olly is unique in that it is the first personal robot with independent personality. According to the user's personality and living habits, Olly can provide a quantity for each user. A unique response created by Olly. Olly learns to understand users and proactively provide services to users, freeing users from everyday chores, making users' lives more efficient, easier, and allowing consumers to interact with technology. "There is a feeling of humanity." Chelsea said in an interview with CNBC in the United States that Olly's "visual + voice + emotion + active learning" experience is unique in the market and is different from many technology giants' voice robot products. What's more, Olly is a more neutral open platform than a new voice portal for a large platform.
These efforts by Olly are in exchange for consumers' pursuit. In September 2017, Olly officially started pre-sale on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. In just one month, more than 400 supporters helped Olly to raise nearly $290,000, which was 2.8 times higher than the original target.
On Emotech's Facebook homepage and the message board of the Olly Co-CreaTIon team, Olly also received a lot of expectations and praise. A diehard powder left an album for Olly before the pre-sales. A thousand words long letter to express your expectations for Olly.
In November, in the British "Financial Times" Chinese network and I have a guest media co-sponsored "Time Influence - Top 30 Chinese Business Cases", Emotech also together with Jingdong, Keda Xunfei, Tencent WeChat and other industry leaders, Successfully selected Top30.
“Emotech is a high-tech team founded by Chinese founders overseas. It brings together more than 10 top artificial intelligence scientists from around the world and launches the first emotional interactive intelligent home robot OLLY. CES won 4 awards to refresh the winning records of Chinese companies, and refreshed CES. The records of all the startup products in the past 50 years, their products have been designed and produced in the international context from the beginning, facing the global market." "Financial Times" Chinese network said in the award-winning comments.
The above is Emotech's one-year transcript, and it is the epitome of Chinese entrepreneurs represented by it. They are becoming synonymous with a new force. They not only shine in the local, but also show the new generation of innovation power in Europe and America through globalization. In the recent selection of well-known third-party companies in the United States, 57 global start-up unicorns in 2017 (valued at over $1 billion), Chinese start-ups accounted for 30%, and another top ten unicorns, China and the United States Guoping is divided into autumn colors, each accounting for five. All this is enough to make Emotech's future full of joy.
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