2013-09-18, 09:50
Dogs Treat Sociable Robots Like People
When it comes to designing more social robots, dogs may be an engineer's best friend. A recent experiment showed that dogs reacted to robots with voices and faces as if they were humans, indicating that future social robots could be tested on dogs to evaluate the bots' humanness.
Dogs are good at observing their owners' behavior and then acting in kind, such as when a dog barks at someone who appears to be threatening his owner. So step one of this robot analysis study was to have dogs watc
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When it comes to designing more social robots, dogs may be an engineer's best friend. A recent experiment showed that dogs reacted to robots with voices and faces as if they were humans, indicating that future social robots could be tested on dogs to evaluate the bots' humanness.
Dogs are good at observing their owners' behavior and then acting in kind, such as when a dog barks at someone who appears to be threatening his owner. So step one of this robot analysis study was to have dogs watc
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...HiWWDL8k0/