Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 15, 2010 @07:27PM 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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Wait ... you mean ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-15 19:32 · Score: 5, Funny

soon robots will have better social skills than I do?
Re:Yanee dah poo noo, ho ho ho by BadAnalogyGuy · 2010-02-15 20:00 · Score: 4, Informative

That's not true. Sometimes it is necessary to have a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators. That's something even poor moisture farmers need.