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Tuesday June 5, 2007
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People are always doing wacky things with research robots and getting huge pats on the back for making them do stuff we do naturally--like making expressions. This guy, believe it or not, is making an expression it associates with "love." Actually the Meiji University's Robot and Science Institute research robot is called Kansei, and works with a program that looks at words typed into a computer and then matches them against its own 500,000 word database and creates relationships that it ultimately translates into facial expressions ranging from, according to Reuters, "pleasantness to unpleasantness." The Kawasaki, Japan, robot has another 35 expressions, all them probably equally horrifying.
Update: Kansei can also hear words and respond to them with "appropriate" facial expressions.
Via Reuters
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