Uncanny no more

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2961, 2014, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Robin Read at Plymouth University in the UK has been imbuing robots with sounds that might elicit an emotional response from people. Read and colleague Tony Belpaeme created two sounds: a chirpy, positive-sounding bleep and a melancholy whine. They then recorded footage of a humanoid robot--the Nao from Aldebaran Robotics of Paris, France--making each sound after being slapped, kissed, stroked or having its eyes covered. Then 300 people on the crowdsourcing Web site CrowdFlower were asked to rate how they perceived the robot's feelings after each action. In general, people had a similar response to each sound. But the pair found that people were more engaged when the robot made a sound than when it didn't. Meanwhile, Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his team have a number of other tricks to make a humanoid robot seem "alive."