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Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots

Posted by kdawson on from the attention-in-the-uncanny-valley dept.

Lanxon writes "A pan-European team of robotics researchers began a project this year that could see humanoid bots interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way for the first time. The 'humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces' (HUMAVIPS) project has the ambitious goal of making humanoid bots just a bit more human by building algorithms that will enable bots to mimic what psychologists call the 'cocktail party effect' — the human ability to focus attention on just one person in the midst of other people, voices and background noise."

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  1. Wait ... you mean ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    soon robots will have better social skills than I do?

  2. Suggested tag... by Zoxed · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots
    > ...
    > team of robotics researchers ...

    That story should be tagged "what-could-possibly-go-wrong" ;-)

  3. Programmers giving robots social skills? by tomalpha · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the small part of my brain that handles irony just segfaulted

  4. RE4 Prototype by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Funny

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    "What are ya buyin'?"
    "Nothin'."
    "What are ya sellin'?"
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