Kansei frowns when he hears the word “bomb”, smiles at “sushi” and looks scared and disgusted when someone says “president” — and he isn’t even human.
Japan’s latest robot, called Kansei and created by a university research team, can pull up to 36 different facial expressions based on a program which creates word associations from a self-updating online database of 500,000 keywords.
The English keywords then trigger the most appropriate facial expression, which ranges from happiness to sadness, anger and fear.
The robot has 19 movable parts underneath the silicone face mask. When the robot hears the word “president”, the online database picks up associated words such as “Bush,” “war” and “Iraq” and creates an expression which the researchers said is meant to mix fear and disgust.
At last, a robot capable of communication with human beings. What we need next is…?
If you tell him the word “Bukkake” will he be horny or hungry?
lol
What about the word: Nuke
Ask it whom Jesus would want to bomb next.
Bushuru is the new Japanese word for puking on the prime minister… A’la George HW Bush… Of course, he was suffering from Heroin withdrawal, so it’s OK.
#1
It will drool…
They should have started with a more simple task, emulating the facial expressions of our current president. He only has one (that “I’m the President and you’re NOT” smirk), so it would not be as difficult a technological challenge.
Too bad they didn’t come up with the robot in 2000. I’d have voted for him before I’d have voted before for the current dimwit.
A picket sign; it would be immune to tear gas. It absolutely obeys political correctness.
Is it just me or it looks just like jackie chan?
When they add speech to his program, he’ll be absolutely perfect as a news anchor.
“What we need next is…?”
…really great looking female sex robots!
12. hhopper,
I wonder what “lust” looks like via his software program – or are they saving that exclusively for female-looking robots? I suppose that makes my question look like a homophobe query or something? Not so. I find them both to be ‘finestkind’ questions, at least in Boston.