（不，途中没有花花公子传播。）
艾拉’s a product of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and she’s unusual in the typically masculine world of robotics as she’s unashamedly female (as far as these sorts of definitions have any meaning in the world of robotics … outside of the nascent sex-robot industry, that is). She’s humanoid and highly flexible with all the right degrees of limb freedom to emulate lifting/carrying maneuvers in the same way you or I might. But instead of going for advanced self-balancing bipedal locomotion, the German team has given the bot six independently driven swiveling wheels, reminiscent of some of the rovers trekking across Mars. This simplifies the problem of getting around, allows for extremely precise positioning and, when you begin to talk about putting AILA’s into production, will mean significantly lower unit costs.
立体视觉增加了该机器人采用的人体形式，但Aila的真正窍门是她的RFID标签感功能。与其必须执行各种复杂，强大的（最终，昂贵）的机器视觉对象识别任务，不如说，AILA必须采取所有操作才能通过她的RFID对象库扫描范围。这意味着她有点限于仅使用她知道的物体，但这意味着要捡起东西并将其移至您指挥的地方，她要做的最困难的事情就是计算如何最好地携带东西。
She’s evidently a prototype gynoid, but unlike ASIMO or some of the more high-end research robots you may’ve seen she actually represents the sort of affordable automated task assistant that may, sooner than you think, end up in your workplace/restaurant/bar.
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