Asimo is the referee

Asimo's human form became smarter when it came to understanding the voice of three people at once. This new ability allows it to be a referee in a paper-based game of hammering-scissors (a form of jailbreak) for three players.

In this game, three players will simultaneously name one of three things (paper, hammer or scissors), and Asimo will determine exactly the winner.

Asimo is powered by HARK software developed by researchers at the Kyoto University and the Honda Research Institute, which enables robots to hear multiple voices at the same time without having to rely on a single dominant sound source. any.

HARK can not understand all 10 voices at the same time, but according to the researchers, it can distinguish three people at the same time with 70-80% accuracy. The main advantage of this technology is that it can be embedded into robots and work in real-time control mode, in a manner similar to human interaction.

Asimo: "You said" pull "and you won!"

Paper-hammer-and-scissors games use less vocabulary, so it's easier to distinguish between complex sentences: when the robot identifies complex sentence patterns when three people order the food in the restaurant At the same time the accuracy is only 30-40%.

Scientists highly appreciate this technology, and hope the collaboration between neuroscientists and robots will make the robot more intelligent and able to communicate better in the future.