Maybe when you were younger, you heard your grandfather complaining about being laid off from the factory because of the introduction of robots that could do his job better and faster. Well, it appears like that fate is in store for journalists as well, as there is a new robot in town and it is looking for this job. How exactly robots write, you will see in the following lines.

Scientists at Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab in Tokyo or ISI have developed an explorer robot able to understand its surroundings, asking questions if there are people present, take pictures of certain stuff that it considers to be interesting and after that write a short story it can post online. Investigation journalism at its best, especially as it is an autonomous machine that you can actually put to good work in dangerous areas. It also enhances its database by searching the internet for information regarding things it cannot understand.

So, it has a microphone recorder, a camera, access to the internet and probably some very strong and stable principles. This new type of robot journalist will not have moral or ethic issues and can be made to be bulletproof as well, there might be something to this.

Though it is not the first robot of this type to be built, the one that the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab has developed has the extra features of being autonomous and capable of interacting with humans at the same time. Combined with the capacity to search online for extra info, it can adapt itself very well in any territory that needs to be investigated.

I am very curious as how it transforms all the gathered data into an actual article. How it integrates the quotes taken from its interviews, how it uses the pictures taken and, most of all, how it actually writes/reports, as I am sure most of you out there are. It is currently in development so we will have to wait a while before being able to log on the robotnews website. The guys over at Singularity Hub have the full story.


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