5/29/2009 PERMALINK
Humanoid bot learning to show emotions for better human interface
Japan has a serious labor shortage that raises the question of how all the elderly in their rapidly aging population can be taken care of. A lot of research is being done into using bots for this purpose, and it has found that bots able to display emotions are more readily accepted by the elderly. Here is a clip of the latest effort at designing a humanoid bot that can show emotions recognizable to humans.