去年,我作为中国科技赴日参观团的成员,参观了在日本筑波科学城举办的“国际科技博览会”(日本简称“科学万博”,以下简称“万博”). 这次博览会以电子与信息技术展出为重点,可以说“万博”是未来信息社会的一幕预演,而各种机器人则扮演了这幕预演的主角. 目前,国际上一般将机器人分为三代,第一代是程序式机器人;第二代则增加了感觉功能,对作业环境可根据需要,作出各种感应,亦被称为适应型机器人;第三代机器人一般应具有学习、记忆、分析、判断、决策、规划等功能,可称为智能型机器人. 日本是当今的机器人王国.早在七十年代,当美国由于失业率增高等因素的影响,对机器人 Last year, as a member of the Chinese Science and Technology Delegation to Japan, I visited the “International Science and Technology Expo” held in Tsukuba Science City in Japan (Japan’s abbreviation “Science Wanbo”, hereinafter referred to as “Wanbo”). This expo takes electronics and information technology. With the exhibition as the focus, it can be said that “Wanbo” is a preview of the information society in the future, and various robots are playing the protagonist of this rehearsal. Currently, robots are generally divided into three generations in the world. The first generation is a procedural robot; The second generation has increased the sensory function. According to the needs of the operating environment, it can make various inductions. It is also called an adaptive robot. The third generation of robots should generally have the functions of learning, memory, analysis, judgment, decision, planning and so on. It can be called a smart robot. Japan is today’s robot kingdom. As early as the 1970s, when the United States was affected by factors such as increased unemployment, robots