[release]LONDON: A robot that is capable of developing and showing emotions has finally been unveiled.
When Nao — developed by a European research team — is sad, he hunches his shoulders forward and looks down. When he's happy, he raises his arms, angling for a hug. When frightened, Naohe cowers, and he stays like that until he is soothed with some gentle strokes on his head.
Nothing out of the ordinary, perhaps, except that Nao is a robot — the world's first that can develop and display emotions. He can form bonds with the people he meets depending on how he is treated. The more he interacts with someone, the more Nao learns a person's moods and the stronger the bonds become.
"We're modelling the first years of life," the Guardian quoted Lola Canamero, a computer scientist at the University of Hertforshire who led the project to create Nao's emotions, as saying.
"We are working on non-verbal cues and the emotions are revealed through physical postures, gestures and movements of the body rather than facial or verbal expression."
He can use video cameras to work out how close a person comes and sensors to detect how tactile they are.
"If you want to tell the robot it's doing well, you might show your face or smile or you might pat them on the head," Canamero said.
Nao can also work out where his human companions are looking, follow their gaze and memorise different people's faces. Using a neural network brain, he can remember interactions with different people.
This understanding, plus some basic rules of what is good and bad for him learned from exploring his environment, allows Nao to indicate whether he is happy, sad or frightened with what is going on around him. The display actions for each emotion are pre-programmed but Nao decides by himself when to display each emotion or combination of emotions.
"Those responses make a huge difference for people to be able to interact naturally with a robot," said Cañamero.
If people can behave naturally around their robot companions, robots will be better-accepted as they become more common in our lives, she said.
Nao's programming was developed as part of a project called Feelix Growing, funded by the European commission. It was a collaboration of eight universities and robotics companies across the UK, France, Switzerland, Greece and Denmark.[/release]
Pretty cool, I'd be amazed to see it once it can do facial expressions.
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Thank god this wasn't made in Japan.
Why?
Aren't we supposed to make 'em without emotions so they don't get angry and revolt?
I doubt vengeance is an emotion it is capable of..
Wonder if they have a sex drive (want for sex)..
Doesn't really sound like it has emotions, just that it's been programmed to look like it has.
Will ya look at that?
Robots will never have emotions, do microchips have emotions? No.
[QUOTE=E1025;23936120]Doesn't really sound like it has emotions, just that it's been programmed to look like it has.[/QUOTE]
I could do that with a couple of conditionnal statements, problem is how convincing will that be.
Appearently this one is.
bawwing robots. fuck.
[QUOTE=343N;23936139]Will ya look at that?
Robots will never have emotions, do microchips have emotions? No.[/QUOTE]
No, but programs can have emotions
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23936047]
Wonder if they have a sex drive (want for sex)..[/QUOTE]
Considering that it is a primal instinct, I doubt it.
[QUOTE=E1025;23936120]Doesn't really sound like it has emotions, just that it's been programmed to look like it has.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, a robot is a computer, computer's don't have emotions.
If statement = abusive Then display Emotion.Upset... etc.
It takes code and shows what we think a real person would react as.
[QUOTE=Chrille;23936167]Considering that it is a primal instinct, I doubt it.[/QUOTE] They can program it with one.
Robots should only be used for one thing
That one thing being?..
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23936199]Yeah, a robot is a computer, computer's don't have emotions.
If statement = abusive Then display Emotion.Upset... etc.
It takes code and shows what we think a real person would react as.[/QUOTE]
Will it be able to detect Stealth Insults?
[QUOTE=Sniping Robot;23936213]Robots should only be used for one thing[/QUOTE]
Sniping?
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23936219]That one thing being?..[/QUOTE]
To cure my unsatisfiable lust.
If we get a head start now, we could corner the market on hunting replicants in only a couple years.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;23936228]Will it be able to detect Stealth Insults?[/QUOTE]
Maybe, the could perhaps analyze tone or something in the future.
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23936199]Yeah, a robot is a computer, computer's don't have emotions.
If statement = abusive Then display Emotion.Upset... etc.
It takes code and shows what we think a real person would react as.[/QUOTE]
You are completely oblivious to Artificial Neural Networks, In Situ Adaptive Tabulation, Expectation-maximization, Unsupervised learning etc? Or am I misunderstanding your post?
It never stops screaming...
It just doesn't fucking stop.
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23935968]Why?[/QUOTE]
watch the anime Chobits
Why are people so worried about robots developing emotions? Do we place some great sentimental value on them? Do we fear our own emotions taint our judgement and want to keep robots pure? Do we think that emotions give them some power over us? It just never made sense to me.
This is awesome. I just hope it doesn't turn on us and kill us all.
[QUOTE=343N;23936139]Will ya look at that?
Robots will never have emotions, do microchips have emotions? No.[/QUOTE]
Humans are the same as robots in the sense that we're 'programmed'. We're programmed using specific sequences of genes. Same principal as how a robot is programmed.
You start to delve into questions regarding consciousness and self-awareness when you start discussing this stuff. If you managed to develop artificial awareness in a machine then I'm entirely certain that emotions would be a completely naturally, even if unintended by-product of said awareness. Anything with the ability to experience and comprehend the universe around it is probably gonna develop some sense of 'good' and 'bad' (which we know through emotions).
Conversely I don't think it's possible for something to develop true emotions unless it is sentient and can actually observe the universe around it.
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23936199]Yeah, a robot is a computer, computer's don't have emotions.
If statement = abusive Then display Emotion.Upset... etc.
It takes code and shows what we think a real person would react as.[/QUOTE]
You've just defined natural emotions. Thanks.
The brain is nothing more than a computer developed over millions of years. Everything we do is just based on organic programming. Really, the only difference between a sentient robot and a person is that the person can reproduce and grow without outside influence, where as the robot can't, and even that isn't completely true.
People freak out about robots having emotions because over the years, writers and movie makers have created this idea of the rampaging, murderous robots staging an uprising. They've created the idea that this is unavoidable with robots. The reality is that, in almost every single instance of this, the cause was because these intelligent robots were regarded as nothing more than slaves. And honestly, who could blame them for revolting if this is the case?
Great, when will they give the periods?
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