The Optimus Robot, Nadia, Naomi and the Massive NDIS Assistive Technology Market
Note: For some reason LinkedIn does not permit links to YouTube videos. So head over to my YouTube channel @mariehelenjohnson to see the video of the Naomi robot talking about the NDIS.
This video blog is about Elon Musk's recent announcement of the Optimus Autonomous Assistant Humanoid Robot, and the massive Assistive Technology market of funded supports through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The video blog tells the story of work done way back in 2016 on the Nadia project where the IBM Naomi robot was connected to the Nadia brain (the corpus).
The Nadia Naomi robot prototype was intended to demonstrate the phenomenal choice of interfaces that was rapidly emerging at that time, and through which people could interact.
Left. 2016. Me with the IBM Naomi robot hooked up to the Nadia corpus. Watch Naomi talk in the YouTube video.
Centre: 2015. The AI Assistive Technology innovation strategy.
Right: 2016. An Internet connected, software enabled exoskeleton demonstrated in the office by a person who is a paraplegic and their physiotherapist.
There is no reason why the Optimus robot could not be an NDIS funded support.
The barrier to this, is a culture averse to innovation and co-design.
So what are we waiting for?
The story of what happened is told in my book "Nadia: Politics | Bigotry | Artificial Intelligence", available on Amazon.
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4wCongratulations Marie J. for all you are doing in AI NDIS Assisted Technology sector Belmont BEC
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1moSo many people with horrible diseases that take away their ability to balance even if they can stand. I know people who would LOVE the exoskeleton Where can we get one for them?
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1moI know that the Japanese vendors have had success getting adoption of robot assistants or pets in the aged care sector there - but that is a country that made a living from high tech, so the feeling is that western cultures would not be as "welcoming" for robot assistants... and watching West World certainly makes me think that is how some would treat robots! But with the huge amount of physical work that (typically aging) parents have to do for their grown kids with disabilities, there has got to be room for robotics in the disability care sector. Whether they are humanoid or not isn't important- it is the job they could do that could not only give the person with a disability more independence, but also free up the carers to work and contribute to the tax base (which was one of the assumptions of the NDIS - getting carers back into work so they can pay taxes!).
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1moI wish 😳