Computer Milk » humanoid http://www.computermilk.net Straight from the teats of technology Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Emotional Humanoid Robots http://www.computermilk.net/2009/06/27/emotional-humanoid-robots/ http://www.computermilk.net/2009/06/27/emotional-humanoid-robots/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:43:20 +0000 obadiah http://www.computermilk.net/?p=136 Interacting with robots in the future could be easier due to their ability to simulate human emotions. Think C3P0 from Star Wars.

By moving lips, eyelids, eyebrows, and other bodily joints, a robot named Kobian that was recently unveiled in Japan is able to express its emotions.

However, if you’ve ever read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you know about Marvin the paranoid android. Maybe there is a downside to emotional robots. After all, who wants to deal with a depressed robot?

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