Interactive, Emotion-Detecting Robot Developed 58
cylonlover writes "A team of Cambridge University researchers have now developed a system that can not only detect a user's emotional state, but can also make expressive responses of its own. Using a robotic likeness of the godfather of the programmable computer, Charles Babbage, the team has hooked the system up to a driving simulator and created a computerized driving companion and navigator that reacts to the driver in much the same way as a human passenger."
Re:Why? (Score:4, Insightful)
We cant even get voice recognition to work because of tonal changes and ascents.
Recently an article was published talking about the human synapse which describes it far as more complex than original thought. See http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101117/3877/new-imaging-method-developed-at-stanford-reveals-stunning-details-of-brain-connections.htm [medicaldaily.com]
I recon we should start focusing creating LtCmdr Data before we progress on figuring out how to build Lore.