Robot Einstein can recognize emotions
A robot version of Albert Einstein has been created which scientists hope could be the key to robot-human interaction.Boffins claim the bot - complete with the distinctive hair an mustache - can interact with humans in a 'relatively' natural way
By recognizing human facial expressions the robot is able to respond accordingly using 31 internal motors to evoke emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear or confusion.
The team from the University of California even say the £50,000 "Einstein Robot" could soon be teaching high-school pupils.
Given the state of some schools at the moment they might have better look if there robot resembles the Terminator rather than Albert Einstein.
"In the short-term, Einstein is being used to develop computer vision so we can see how computers perceive facial expressions and develop hardware to visually react," says Javier Movellan, one of the research scientists.
"This robot is a scientific instrument that we hope will tell us something about human-robot interaction, but also human-to-human interaction.
"When a robot interacts in a way we feel is human, we can't help but react."
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Hanson Robotics
University of California, San Diego
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