Robots know when we are sad, happy or angry

A robot with sympathetic words for us is no different from fiction, but with the support of the neural network European scientists are now working on creating robots of the same state. affection for us. Feelix Growing is researching software to help robots learn to recognize when we are sad, happy or angry.

The way learning is done using artificial neural networks is well suited to the ever-changing input that robots perceive. By using cameras and sensors, the robots are very normal because the researchers make from mainly discarded parts that can detect different parameters such as the expression of the face of the child. people, voice. At the same time they are also close to the ability to determine the emotional state of people.

Pictured is a robot by scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.It can answer humans by performing arm operations that can be tracked by eye easily.The robot will be used in pilot studies with children with autism to learn children's consciousness about 'agentivity'.For example, the ability to understand the impact of actions on others.(Photo: Image courtesy of Feelix Growing Consortium / EPFL)

Science and technology has included studies of areas such as robotics, adaptive systems, comparative and developmental psychology, neuroscience and learning that come together. All are directed towards human behavior.

Do you feel OK?

Like a child, robots can learn from the experience of responding to the feelings of people living around it.

If someone expresses fear or cries in pain, the robot can learn to change its activity to make it less scary or to support people if necessary. If someone cries with joy, the robot can also make a difference and someday it will adjust its response accordingly.

The project coordinator Dr. Lola Canamero spoke about Feelix Growing on BBC News story as follows: 'This is almost as much feedback and behavioral feedback as possible. Emotional and emotional feedback through positive reinforcement activities, such as using polite words, beautiful deeds or helping robots do something if they don't know how to deal with it. '

Material instincts

The 3-year project of the Sixth Framework Program is attended by six countries and 25 experts are currently building robots to show their views.

A test robot followed the researchers everywhere like a mother bear to learn the experiences of when to follow or when to keep close to the mother's bear. The robot's face is also being built to show different emotions.

If robots can understand people's emotions and at the same time express sympathy, people will quickly accept robots to serve.

Not really I Robot

According to Canamero, robots that can adapt to human behavior are in great need if machines in the future will hold a certain role in society, such as helping the sick, the elderly, people with autism or those who cannot leave the house . They will be in-house support, or simply to serve as entertainment.

Although project implementers are still afraid of the prospect of I Robot having complex emotions that are able to make decisions on their own, Feelix Growing's software for sympathetic robots is a big step forward for the create robots.