bendedreality.com
| Scientist Build Robot That is Able to Mimic Human Emotions
While we're not quite there yet we are slowly but surely getting to the point where robots will be so human like that it will take some effort to know if it is human or not. via unexplained-mysteries: Scientists are trying to build emotionally intelligent interfaces. Scientists at Cambridge University have been working on an emotive human-like robot known as Charles. Designed to look like a middle-aged man and equipped with an array of servos that enable it to move different parts of its face, the eerily life-like robot is remarkably adept at duplicating human emotions. To accomplish this, special software first analyzes video footage of a person performing an emotion and then replicates each individual movement using the servos in place of human facial muscles. "We've been interested in seeing if we can give computers the ability to understand social signals, to understand facial expressions, tone of voice, body posture and gesture," said Prof Peter Robinson. "We thought it would also