Humanoid robots are often experienced as unnerving, a psychological phenomenon called the “uncanny valley.” The Uncanny Valley is quite a problem for ‘humanoid’ robot designers – who currently struggle to make their robots 100% convincing. A newly proposed solution involves ‘dehumanizing’ ‘humanoid’ robots. By, for example, removing the robot’s face to expose bare electronic circuit […]
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Towards irrational robots
“How the mind really works? It often works irrationally. But, we argue in this paper, a bit of irrationality may supports [sic] survival and cognitive development.” And furthermore, say authors Syed I. Ahson and Andrzej Buller in their chapter for Human-Computer Systems Interaction, Volume 60 of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, irrational robots […]
The ‘Infant Mannequin’ (new patent)
“Babies capture the hearts and minds of those that surround them during their stages of development, but grow so quickly that their family may not have time to fully enjoy these times.” A possible solution to this conundrum is presented in an invention which has just received a US patent (Aug 2014). The patent describes […]