Scientists work on helping robots ‘understand people as people’
‘George the robot is playing hide-and-seek with scientist Alan Schultz.
For a robot to actually find a place to hide, and then to hunt for its human playmate, is a new level of human interaction. The machine must take cues from people and behave accordingly.
This is the beginning of a real robot revolution: giving robots some humanity.
“Robots in the human environment, to me that’s the final frontier,” said Cynthia Breazeal, robotic life group director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The human environment is as complex as it gets; it pushes the envelope.”‘
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