A breakthrough in robot technology and this time it isn’t from Japan. An emotional robot called Nao has been developed by a team of researchers, led by University of Hertfordshire along with others from European countries including France, Denmark etc. The Nao robot is able to interact with human emotionally.
Nao is capable of showing feelings and with the emotions that emulate those of one year-old child. The emotions of the Nao can be expressed via various physical gestures, postures and movements of body rather than facial or verbal expression.
Nao can show different emotions including sadness, fear, joy, and pride. It can also be programmed with different personalities. To work as what it claims, Nao is equipped with various gears including sensors, cameras, speech recognition system etc.
It’ll be a perfect robot to accompany the lonely elderly in the hospitals or home. And some more it’s able to develop attachments to those who care for him over times and learn to know their likes and dislikes. Read more about it on GeekWithLaptop.
August 11th, 2010 at 5:01 am
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