Korondi, Péter
(BME MOGI)
Is it possible for a robot to have emotions?
First part of the presentation is about the general trends in the field of robotics.
According to the report of Japanese Ministry of Economics and Trade the robot industry market will be rearranged dramatically The dominance will be shifted from the classical industrial robots used in the manufacturing sector to the so called service robots, which have already overtaken the leadership in the scientific journals and conferences but his market segment was almost ignorable. It will be increased most rapidly in the near future. This perception shows the increasing trend office, hospital, and similar robots. (In most of the cases these are mobile robots.)
Until now, the ordinary people could see robots only in the TV but there was no real physical contact with them. It means that robots were pure engineering stuff. The engineers used them. Service robots are designed for more sophisticated tasks than other devices, so the robot control method and the artificial intelligence must satisfy the communication tasks at a human-robot interaction. In line with the hardware design, the low level software development this train of thought raises several additional questions like
The second part of the presentation is about MOGI Robi, the faithful robot: MOGI Robi is the result of such research, where as a first step in the process, behavioural scientists described dogs’ attachment patterns to their masters in details. Computer scientists then translated these patterns into algorithms and computer programs, and finally, engineers constructed a robot whose elements of behaviour resemble those shown by dogs. While MOGI Robi does not have emotions, it can act in a way that makes us believe that it is actually fond of us.
Date: Oct. 14, Tuesday 4:15pm
Place: BME, Main Building „K”, 1st Floor, Room 50