Navigation robots know how to share feelings with drivers

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Volkswagen have recently built a model of a car navigation robot with the ability to interact with the driver.

Driving will be much easier thanks to the AIDA personal vehicle model (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent-AIDA), which means that the robot has intelligent emotional assistants.

AIDA will tell you the fastest route based on maps and traffic reports, remind you to refuel or suggest places you may want to go.

AIDA is placed in the car's cabin and communicates with the driver through a face-type screen capable of expressing emotions. By changing eyes, AIDA can show a sympathetic face when you're upset or happy when you're happy.

When you are sad, AIDA is also sad and sympathetic,

When you are happy, AIDA also radiates.

"We are developing for AIDA the ability to read the driver's mood from facial expressions and signs as well as the ability to react with molds," said Cynthia Breazeal, MIT's personal robot manufacturing team leader. face with appropriate emotions. "

AIDA works on the driver's driver analysis, constantly updating information from the roads and destinations and then calculating the appropriate route for the driver.

Scientists say AIDA will be able to remember locations, routes during a week of driving and take that as a computational data. In addition, AIDA will be able to get directions to the driver's favorite locations, calculate the appropriate route to avoid traffic jams and remind drivers to refuel in appropriate locations when the gas tank is about to run out.

AIDA robot is neat and beautiful in the cabin.

AIDA robot has the ability to constantly update information on traffic jams, weather reports, commercial travel activities .

Professor Carlo Ratti, laboratory director of SENSEable City Lab of MIT, said: "AIDA represents efforts to handle large volumes of data, exploiting electronic devices of individuals to create a device. In the process of developing AIDA, we always remind ourselves that we need to create a system that gives instruction as a smart and friendly friend. "

According to Assaf Biderman from SENSEable City Lab, "AIDA has both the ability to respond to your driving style, make adjustments to help you be safe and less tired when driving."

AIDA updates information on maps, traffic jams, shopping centers and gas stations and gives reasonable directions and suggestions about the route.

In the fabrication process, scientists gradually envision a kind of interrelated relationship developed between drivers and AIDA, when both sides learn from each other and establish an emotional connection. .

The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robot Manufacturing Group of MIT Media Lab, MIT SENSEable City Lab and Volkswagen Regional Electronic Research Laboratory of Volkswagen.