A paper describes the thinking behind the competition to build a Turing-Test-like-passable robotic handshake (which was described here yesterday). The paper is called “A Turing-like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence.” One or more of the authors — Amir Karniel, Ilana Nisky, Guy Avraham, Bat-Chen Peles, and Shelly Levy-Tzedek — will present it at the EuroHaptics 2010 conference in Amsterdam, July 8-10, 2010.
Some scholars will find the reality, if not the concept, touching.
(Thanks to Investigator Martin Gardiner for finding the paper.)