A collaboration of 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists are aiming to build robots that are capable of learning from humans dynamically while responding in a socially and emotionally appropriate manner. These robots can be quite simple, but it is the complex software that drives them which makes the difference, enabling the robots to learn from behavioral and contact feedback received from humans. Interpreting emotions can be pretty tricky as basic computing logic can’t figure out what happiness and sadness are. This three-year long project will cost up to 2.3 million Euros. Will we ever see complex robots like those found in I, Robot during this generation?
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