<p>观点：阿西莫夫的机器人三大法则被会计学的第一法则所超越：你必须赚钱。iRobot，这家生产 Roomba 机器人吸尘器的公司，正在进行第 11 章破产，其中国制造合作伙伴兼债权人准备对其进行剥离。</p>
<p>Roomba 已经存在超过二十年，获得了很高的品牌认知度和几乎持续的硬件与软件创新。它可能会迎来转机，但 iRobot 却无法盈利。公司将失败归咎于一系列原因，包括运输延误、消费者的谨慎以及关税的影响，其他人则将矛头指向一大批低成本的仿制品。或许。</p>
<p>这不是你以前见过的短语：今天的吸尘器市场非常迷人。它是更大趋势的缩影，机器人清洁器利用人工智能和不断演变的机械理念，与吸尘管展开竞争。科技社会革命的研究者对此不会感到惊讶。</p>
<p>第一台吸尘器是马车拖动的装置，将软管伸入房屋，标志着家用电器的黎明，使中产阶级摆脱了家庭佣人。20 世纪的快速进步造就了像 Hoover 这样的工业巨头，以及对便利性上瘾的消费文化。如果有哪个时刻和地点适合机器人进一步解放大众免于自己做家务，那就是现在。你知道情况。人工智能依托无比强大的计算能力，制造出计算机控制的奇迹。吸尘器从工具演变为代理。那么，问题出在哪里？</p>
<p>首先是机器本身。市场领导者，像侏罗纪时代的圆筒吸尘器，通常可以使用超过十年。它们相对简单，使用频率不高。机器人吸尘器则复杂得多，承诺几乎持续的清洁，并且对锂电池有依赖。毫不奇怪，它们在使用几年后出现故障并不罕见。将家用电器转变为智能手机的更新节奏是一个艰难的销售。</p>
<p>即使在它们正常工作时，机器人吸尘器也并不总是能兑现其承诺，这样说也算是宽容。清洁房屋完全依赖于人类的感官和决策能力。一个家庭中有不同生命周期的智人、猫和狗，可能会在各种地方产生大量不同的物质。家用科技的平均宣传视频可能会展示年轻专业人士在阳光明媚的极简主义幻想公寓中。然而，现实生活中的体验却并非如此。</p>
<p>然而，我们生活在一个奇迹的时代。清理猫、幼儿和周五晚派对后杂乱的房间是先进人工智能应该乐于接受的挑战。即使今天它无法胜任，Roomba 作为第一个产生影响的家用人工智能应用的地位，应该能像蚂蚁一样吸引投资者。良好的业绩记录、品牌认知度、坚实的知识产权积累、无与伦比的领域专业知识。似乎这些都不值得从厨房地板上捡起来。</p>
<ul>
<li>根据《计算机滥用法》对道德黑客的法律保护只是第一步</li>
<li>无论人工智能在什么合法场合，操作系统都不是其中之一</li>
<li>氛围编码：有什么用？绝对没有（抱歉，Linus）</li>
<li>人工智能音乐终于战胜了表演人类，但听起来一点也不像胜利</li>
</ul>
<p>现实撞上了机器人技术，而现实赢了。iRobot 曾向亚马逊提供自己，作为一种理想的智能家居电器。由于监管反对，亚马逊没有完成这笔交易。</p>
<p>事实证明，家用电器对智能家居的影响是免疫的。浏览亚马逊自己的网站，寻找支持 Alexa 的烹饪器具、冰箱、微波炉、洗衣机，或者任何超出灯光和插头的产品，选择寥寥，价格荒谬。现实与智能家居相遇，现实赢了。</p>
<p>这就是 iRobot 失败的原因，在一个对人工智能投资和机器人热潮的市场中。它承载着现实的污名。它的承诺简单易懂，令人渴望，容易接受。曾经。</p>
<p>像所有其他消费类机器人一样，除了可争辩的时间转移录像机外，它无法承受太多现实。人工智能投资者对此心知肚明。他们知道，要让 Roomba 成为下一个 Hoover，存在着太大的鸿沟，他们也知道实际的消费者体验意味着我们也知道这一点。</p>
<p>因此，现实免疫社区集中精力于人形机器人，这些机器人在几十年内都将超出消费者体验，甚至无法在沙发下吸尘，处理它们在那儿遇到的不可言说的宠物残留物。</p>
<p>正如虚拟现实、自动驾驶汽车和微软的移动操作系统策略所示，销售梦想比消除失望要容易。你不相信虚拟现实和自动驾驶？回顾十年前的承诺，再回到今天，看看这些东西实际上在你生活中占据了多大一部分。当一项技术承诺代替你面对现实时，它最好不要失误。它通常会失误。</p>
<p>或许，如果 Roomba 将自己描述为一种代理电器，它在生存斗争中会表现得更好。足够准确，因此我们怀疑，这完全不受欢迎。想要清理却仅仅吸尘的机器人的寓言，实在让人感到不安。®</p>

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<p>iRobot，Roomba 的制造商，由于未能实现盈利，尽管品牌知名度和创新能力强，现已进入第 11 章破产程序。导致这一结果的因素包括运输延误、关税以及来自低成本仿制品的竞争。与传统吸尘器相比，机器人吸尘器的复杂性和短暂使用寿命也加剧了其失败。iRobot 试图出售给亚马逊的计划因监管问题而失败。市场现实与围绕人工智能和机器人技术的炒作发生冲突，导致了 iRobot 的崩溃</p>

<p>Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with its Chinese manufacturing partner-cum-creditor poised to pick over the bones.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>观点：阿西莫夫的机器人三大法则被会计学的第一法则所超越：你必须赚钱。iRobot，这家生产 Roomba 机器人吸尘器的公司，正在进行第 11 章破产，其中国制造合作伙伴兼债权人准备对其进行剥离。</p>
</div><p>The Roomba has been around for more than two decades, garnering great brand recognition and near-constant hardware and software innovation. It could turn a corner, but iRobot couldn't turn a profit. The company blamed a barrage of reasons for failure, including shipping delays, consumer timidity, and the joy of tariffs, with others pointing the finger at an army of low-cost knock-offs. Perhaps.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Roomba 已经存在超过二十年，获得了很高的品牌认知度和几乎持续的硬件与软件创新。它可能会迎来转机，但 iRobot 却无法盈利。公司将失败归咎于一系列原因，包括运输延误、消费者的谨慎以及关税的影响，其他人则将矛头指向一大批低成本的仿制品。或许。</p>
</div><p>This is not a phrase you will have met before: today's vacuum cleaner market is fascinating. A microcosm of much bigger trends, with robotic cleaners using AI and constantly evolving mechanical ideas in a battle with sucking tubes. Students of techo-social revolution won't be so surprised.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这不是你以前见过的短语：今天的吸尘器市场非常迷人。它是更大趋势的缩影，机器人清洁器利用人工智能和不断演变的机械理念，与吸尘管展开竞争。科技社会革命的研究者对此不会感到惊讶。</p>
</div><p>The first vacuum cleaners, horse-drawn contraptions that poked their hoses into houses, marked the dawn of domestic appliances that decoupled the middle classes from household servants. Rapid advances in the 20th century produced industrial giants like Hoover, and an addiction to being sold convenience. If ever there was a time and place for robots to further liberate the masses from doing their own domestic service, it's now. You know the score. AI backed by immeasurably powerful computing, manufacturing a miracle of computer-controlled finesse. The vacuum cleaner evolves from being a tool to becoming an agent. So what went wrong?</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>第一台吸尘器是马车拖动的装置，将软管伸入房屋，标志着家用电器的黎明，使中产阶级摆脱了家庭佣人。20 世纪的快速进步造就了像 Hoover 这样的工业巨头，以及对便利性上瘾的消费文化。如果有哪个时刻和地点适合机器人进一步解放大众免于自己做家务，那就是现在。你知道情况。人工智能依托无比强大的计算能力，制造出计算机控制的奇迹。吸尘器从工具演变为代理。那么，问题出在哪里？</p>
</div><p>The machines themselves, for a start. The market leaders, the Jurassic herds of cylinder vacuums, can easily last beyond a decade. They're quite simple and don't see the heaviest use. Robot vacuums are vastly more complex, promise practically constant cleansing, and have a lithium addiction. Unsurprisingly, it's not unusual for them to conk out after a couple of years. Moving a domestic appliance onto a smartphone refresh cadence is a hard sell.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>首先是机器本身。市场领导者，像侏罗纪时代的圆筒吸尘器，通常可以使用超过十年。它们相对简单，使用频率不高。机器人吸尘器则复杂得多，承诺几乎持续的清洁，并且对锂电池有依赖。毫不奇怪，它们在使用几年后出现故障并不罕见。将家用电器转变为智能手机的更新节奏是一个艰难的销售。</p>
</div><p>Even when they have worked, robot vacuum cleaners haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's being charitable. Cleaning a house fully engages a human's senses and decision making. A household with mixed Homo sapiens, Felis catus, and Canis lupus familiaris, all at different stages in their life cycles, can throw up a very large range of materials in a very large range of places. The average promo video for home technology may feature young professionals in a sunlit minimalist fantasy apartment. The average real-life experience does not.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>即使在它们正常工作时，机器人吸尘器也并不总是能兑现其承诺，这样说也算是宽容。清洁房屋完全依赖于人类的感官和决策能力。一个家庭中有不同生命周期的智人、猫和狗，可能会在各种地方产生大量不同的物质。家用科技的平均宣传视频可能会展示年轻专业人士在阳光明媚的极简主义幻想公寓中。然而，现实生活中的体验却并非如此。</p>
</div><p>Yet we live in an age of miracles. Clearing up after cats, toddlers, and a Friday night party in a cluttered den is a challenge advanced AI should relish. Even if it can't hack it today, Roomba's position as one of the first domestic AI use cases that made an impact should have drawn investors in like ants to a jam sandwich dropped behind the fridge. A track record, brand recognition, a solid body of hard-won IP, unmatched domain expertise. None of this, it seems, is worth picking up from the kitchen floor.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>然而，我们生活在一个奇迹的时代。清理猫、幼儿和周五晚派对后杂乱的房间是先进人工智能应该乐于接受的挑战。即使今天它无法胜任，Roomba 作为第一个产生影响的家用人工智能应用的地位，应该能像蚂蚁一样吸引投资者。良好的业绩记录、品牌认知度、坚实的知识产权积累、无与伦比的领域专业知识。似乎这些都不值得从厨房地板上捡起来。</p>
</div><ul>
<li>Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step</li>
<li>Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one</li>
<li>Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)</li>
<li>AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory</li>
</ul>
<div class="lb-trans"><ul>
<li>根据《计算机滥用法》对道德黑客的法律保护只是第一步</li>
<li>无论人工智能在什么合法场合，操作系统都不是其中之一</li>
<li>氛围编码：有什么用？绝对没有（抱歉，Linus）</li>
<li>人工智能音乐终于战胜了表演人类，但听起来一点也不像胜利</li>
</ul>
</div><p>Reality crashed into robotics, and reality won. iRobot had previously offered itself to Amazon, under the banner of a desirable smart home appliance. Amazon didn't complete the deal due to regulatory opposition.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>现实撞上了机器人技术，而现实赢了。iRobot 曾向亚马逊提供自己，作为一种理想的智能家居电器。由于监管反对，亚马逊没有完成这笔交易。</p>
</div><p>Household appliances, it turns out, are immune to smart homesmanship. Look through Amazon's own website for Alexa-enabled cookers, fridges, microwaves, washing machines, or anything beyond lights and plugs, and the choices are few, the prices ridiculous. Reality met the smart home, and reality won.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>事实证明，家用电器对智能家居的影响是免疫的。浏览亚马逊自己的网站，寻找支持 Alexa 的烹饪器具、冰箱、微波炉、洗衣机，或者任何超出灯光和插头的产品，选择寥寥，价格荒谬。现实与智能家居相遇，现实赢了。</p>
</div><p>This is why iRobot failed, in a market where investment in AI and hype about robotics are off the scale. It bears the stigma of reality. Its promise was simple to understand, easy to want, easy to buy into. Once.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这就是 iRobot 失败的原因，在一个对人工智能投资和机器人热潮的市场中。它承载着现实的污名。它的承诺简单易懂，令人渴望，容易接受。曾经。</p>
</div><p>Like all other consumer robotics, with the arguable exception of the time-shifting VCR, it could not take very much reality. The AI investors know this. They know there's too big a gap to bridge to make Roomba the next Hoover, and they know actual consumer experience means we know it too.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>像所有其他消费类机器人一样，除了可争辩的时间转移录像机外，它无法承受太多现实。人工智能投资者对此心知肚明。他们知道，要让 Roomba 成为下一个 Hoover，存在着太大的鸿沟，他们也知道实际的消费者体验意味着我们也知道这一点。</p>
</div><p>Hence the concentration by the reality-exempt community on humanoid robots that will be beyond consumer experience for decades, if ever, let alone able to vacuum under the sofa and cope with the unmentionable pet residue they encounter there.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>因此，现实免疫社区集中精力于人形机器人，这些机器人在几十年内都将超出消费者体验，甚至无法在沙发下吸尘，处理它们在那儿遇到的不可言说的宠物残留物。</p>
</div><p>As virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, and Microsoft's mobile OS strategies show, it's easier to sell dreams than to dispel disappointment. Don't believe it of VR and Autopilot? Skip back ten years to what was promised, then back to today to see how much a part of your life those things actually are. When a technology promises to take on reality in your place, it better not miss. It generally does.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>正如虚拟现实、自动驾驶汽车和微软的移动操作系统策略所示，销售梦想比消除失望要容易。你不相信虚拟现实和自动驾驶？回顾十年前的承诺，再回到今天，看看这些东西实际上在你生活中占据了多大一部分。当一项技术承诺代替你面对现实时，它最好不要失误。它通常会失误。</p>
</div><p>Perhaps Roomba would have fared better in its fight for life had it described itself as an agentic appliance. Accurate enough and thus, we suspect, entirely unwelcome. The parable of the robot that wanted to clean up but merely sucked is far too close for comfort. ®</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>或许，如果 Roomba 将自己描述为一种代理电器，它在生存斗争中会表现得更好。足够准确，因此我们怀疑，这完全不受欢迎。想要清理却仅仅吸尘的机器人的寓言，实在让人感到不安。®</p>
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Roomba 的失败是因为它表现得不够好