Software to Let Robots Learn Human Emotion

July 28th, 2008

IS anything more freaky than a robot that has feelings? IF anyone has ever watched the classic Sci-Fi TV shows like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, etc. they have probably seen some form of non-humans like dolls and robots being like humans. Other than the need for the best acne treatment like humans, these robots were able to do almost anything else a humnan could, and do it to the point of mass destruction to humans in the end. The lesson was always that robots (People alwayas pronounce it robutts in these shows for some reason too, but that’s another rant.) were evil.

European researchers are developing robots in tune with our emotions. Feelix Growing is developing software empowering robots that can learn when a person is sad, happy or angry.

The learning part is achieved through the use of artificial neural networks, which are well suited to the varied and changing inputs that ‘perceptive’ robots would be exposed to. Look at the pic of this robot.

They can’t make a robot doll. Dolls are freaky enough. Then make one that is a robot doll? Keep that thing away from me. Only thing worse maybe would be to make it look like a clown.