Meet Diego-san, a robot baby than learns
January 9, 2013
“DIEGO-SAN” by Hanson for the Machine Perception Lab at the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation.
With a face by David Hanson and Hanson Robotics, which mounts on a body by Kokoro, this robotic baby boy was built with funding from the National Science Foundation and serves cognitive AI and human-robot interaction research.
With high definition cameras in the eyes, Diego San sees people, gestures, expressions, and uses AI, modeled on human babies, to learn from people, the way that a baby hypothetically would. The facial expressions are important to establish a relationship and communicate intuitively to people.
As much a work of art as technology and science, this represents a step forward in the development of emotionally relevant robotics, building on previous work of David Hanson with the Machine Perception Lab such as the emotionally responsive Einstein shown at TED in 2009.
— Hanson Robotics
Video Source: Hanson Robotics
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Comments (6)
by Yikes
You notice the positive facial expressions all look deceptive, like he doesn’t mean it but can’t really hide it, just to gain your trust, and when he does, you know what happens next…
Only the crazy and evil ones are believable. You’d need a really good actor to replicate them. If I met a person with a face working like this I would be putting distance between us every next second of my currently shortened life-expectancy.
by GatorALLin
I would like to hear more details on how this robot will learn….? Can it copy your facial expressions from watching you? Does it have pain and pleasure circuits to help it learn? What pattern recognition system does it use? I think to truly learn it must have pain and pleasure systems and it must have an advanced pattern recognition system.
by Yikes
Why is the Creepiness knob always set to eleven? They’re making the horror movie guys envious.
by Bri
Yea I agree! I keep expecting it to take a bite out of the researcher. How deep is your uncanny valley?
by Anton
Well said Bri!
by GAUSS
I was thinking the same thing. What would be so awful about making a C3PO?