And then there’s the Turing test for kissing. In this experiment, each subject will use the Kissenger to send and receive kisses from two anonymous individuals, and will again be asked to rate their feelings of pleasure and empathy for their partners. But the test subjects won’t know that one of those partners was just a computer program simulating the pressure patterns of a human kiss. Will they be able to tell the difference?
Robotic Kiss Transmitter Lets You Smooch a Loved One From Afar
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Monkeys mourn robot baby in groundbreaking new BBC show
Monkeys mourn robot baby in groundbreaking new BBC show
Don’t look surprised, US soldiers have shown the same behavior.
Jeff Thompson teaches his computer how to touch like him
Teaching my computer to touch me the way I touch it. Recorded gestures on my phone to machine learning to hallucinated gestures to robot arm.
Guangzhou restaurant fires its robot staff for their incompetence
Animal-like machine responding to your every move
Madeline Gannon has a pretty clear discourse about the goal of her research and although she tends to blur the boundary between humans and robots, she clearly keeps them in the realm of objects.
Unfortunately, the same can not be said about the description under the video. Clearly Pier 9 is making it sound ridiculous by anthropomorphizing Mimus.
Mimus is a giant industrial robot that’s curious about the world around her. Mimus sees the world differently than us – she uses sensors embedded in the ceiling above to see everyone around her simultaneously. Mimus can react and move quickly around her space to follow your actions and try to decipher your body language.
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Feel Touch on Robotic Hand
For the grand test, they blindfolded the subject and hooked him up to a robotic hand. When they pressed one of the fingers of the hand, it
communicated with the implant, which fired the neurons in the region of the brain corresponding to that finger. At first, the patient was able to correctly identify the location about 85 percent of the time. Then, as he got used to it, he reached 100 percent.“
Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
Part of being a good teacher is understanding that the device that you’re teaching has different ways of acting in the world and different ways of perceiving it
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Tactile Contact With Intimate Parts of a Human-Shaped Robot is Physiologically Arousing
Touching less accessible regions of the robot (e.g., buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same
anatomical regions.”
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/stanford-touching-nao-robot
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