Saturday, April 16, 2011

Simon Robot


New robot can tell when it's being ignored, and it politely and subtly gets a person's attention. Researchers say the new computer vision system could help robots and humans interact more effectively, by allowing robots to use the same social cues as people.
developed in Georgia Tech's Socially Intelligent Machines lab, uses a camera to figure out when a person is interested in interacting with it.
It watches their behavior and uses some form of gesture, like waving its hand, to get noticed.
It has to figure out whether it captured the person’s attention using only the camera as a guide Simon achieved about  80% accuracy in determining when he had gotten someone’s attention according to Aaron Bobick, professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech's ( College of Computing).
Simon’s timid wave interrupts his concentration, and he waves back.
The goal is to help robots understand when to sit and be quiet and when it’s appropriate for them to get a human’s attention wow do you believe ?
 People can figure this out pretty easily with simple body language, but it’s not as obvious for a robot. Remember Furby and its insistent, insipid desire to play, even when you didn’t feel like it? Simon is apparently a little more polite.
order for these robots to work with us effectively, they have to obey these same social conventions, which means they have to be able to perceive the same things humans perceive in determining how to abide by those conventions
Other robots at Georgia Tech are helping robots learn whether they want to deceive other robots or humans, and then carry out a deceptive strategy to that effect. No word on whether these technologies would ever be combined, so robots could figure out when we humans aren’t paying attention and then carry out their devious world dominating plans.


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