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This story is from the category Artificial Intelligence
Date posted: 27/07/2007 Mehdi Dastani, an artificial-intelligence researcher at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, is endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions. The hope is that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, they should be able to create more-natural human and computer interactions. "We don't really believe that computers can have emotions, but we see that emotions have a certain function in human practical reasoning,". By bestowing intelligent agents with similar emotions, researchers hope that robots can then emulate this humanlike reasoning, he says. By enabling the robot to form facial expressions using its eyebrows, eyelids, mouth, and head position, the researchers are aiming to let it show if it is confused, for example, when interacting with its human user. The long-term goal is to use Dastani's emotional-logic software to assist in human and robot interaction, but for now, the researchers intend to use the iCAT to display internal emotional states as it makes decisions. See the full Story via external site: www.technologyreview.com Most recent stories in this category (Artificial Intelligence): 18/04/2013: NASA's Plan to Advance Robotics by Robotically Capturing small Asteroid |
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