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The Science of Human-Robot Love

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-let-anyone-catch-you-loving-the-robot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "By harnessing a new sphere of science called 'lovotics', Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, believes it is possible to engineer love between humans and robots. Samani's robots have artificial psychological and biological systems that mimic the human brain and endocrine systems, and use movements, sounds, and lights to show their mood and level of affection for a human."

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  1. Re:Love? by Eponymous+Hero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Neo: I just have never...
    Rama-Kandra: ...heard a program speak of love?
    Neo: It's a... human emotion.
    Rama-Kandra: No, it is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies.

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