Judging from the reaction of the audience to this “performance”, I might not be the only one doubting that interaction is really happening. And why do you insist so much that you are not “scary”? Trying to prove a point?
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Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
Over the last several years, when surveys have asked people (in Europe and Japan) about how they feel about robots in their lives, along with a positive perception of robots in general there was a significant amount of resistance to the idea of anthropomorphic robots doing things like
teaching children or taking care of the elderly.
It’s not about having a human presence, it’s about having an authoritative presence.
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When we put them in a shopping center, we actually found that people are excited about it. They look at him and they run towards him. And two things have come up: one is the robot-hug and two is the robot-selfie
The Alcohol drinking Robot by, South Korean artist, Eunchan Park was invented to stop drinking alone.
“The secret of taste of alcohol totally depends on existence of partner”
TOPIO is one of the technology highlights associated with Vietnam’s wikipedia page. The muscular body, white skin, chocolate bars and sun glasses seems the best features for a robot who’s only purpose is to play ping pong with a human.
The moves have “improved” since the first version. But I guess, it will be mostly the looks that defeats a human.
For their experiment, led by researchers from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, the scientists showed 15 volunteers 56 different color photographs from the first-person perspective of both a human and a human-shaped robot hand in different painful and non-painful situations. Some of the pictures showed a human or a robotic finger being cut by a knife, while others showed the knife at a safe distance from the human or robot hand. They attached electroencephalography (EEG) devices to the volunteers to measure their neurological responses to each image.
Theresearchers found that the human observers showed similar empathic neural responses to the robots as they did to other humans. In their paper, they attributed these empathy levels to the design of the robothand.
The anthropomorphic looks and nature of this is ridiculous. Next thing you expect is Motobot stepping down of the motorcycle to shake Valentino Rossi‘s hand and blow up a bottle of champaign.