Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots 92
Lanxon writes "A pan-European team of robotics researchers began a project this year that could see humanoid bots interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way for the first time. The 'humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces' (HUMAVIPS) project has the ambitious goal of making humanoid bots just a bit more human by building algorithms that will enable bots to mimic what psychologists call the 'cocktail party effect' — the human ability to focus attention on just one person in the midst of other people, voices and background noise."
Wait ... you mean ... (Score:5, Funny)
soon robots will have better social skills than I do?
Suggested tag... (Score:4, Funny)
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> team of robotics researchers
That story should be tagged "what-could-possibly-go-wrong" ;-)
Forget the Robots! (Score:3, Funny)
Programmers giving robots social skills? (Score:4, Funny)
I think the small part of my brain that handles irony just segfaulted
Somone's thinking a-head! (Score:3, Funny)
From TFA:
NAO comes with a 500MHz CPU, although an improved head with double the computing power is expected before the end of the year.
At least they are smart enough to put the CPU in the head. This makes the robot easier to disable once it starts using its new-found social skills to ask about the location of Sarah Connor.
RE4 Prototype (Score:4, Funny)
"Welcome, stranger."
"Oh, hi."
"What are ya buyin'?"
"Nothin'."
"What are ya sellin'?"
"Nothin'."
"Come back anytime."
"Oh, OK."
"Welcome, stranger."
"Aaah!"