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A companion robot is a robot created to create real or apparent companionship for human beings. [1] Target markets for companion robots include the elderly [ 2 ] and single children. [ 3 ] Companions robots are expected to communicate with non-experts in a natural and intuitive way.
This research, along with work on computing emotion, speech research and Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) has led to the beginnings of more companionable systems, particularly for the elderly. The EU supported Companions Project is a 4-year, 15-site project to build such companions, based at the University of Sheffield.
It is designed as a platform for further developing robotics technologies involving human-robot interaction. [11] utilizes embedded microphones, binocular eye mounted cameras, a chest camera and facial recognition software to interact with the public. Interactions can be governed by either OpenAI's GPT-3 or human telepresence. She also features ...
David Priest of CNET observes that "For now, this robot remains a luxury item, for people with a lot of money to try out a cutting-edge technology that still lacks a compelling use case." [ 9 ] Lauren Goode of Wired magazine labels Astro as "a robot for the sake of a robot" and "a robot without a cause, at least for now".
Pepper is available as a research and educational robot for schools, colleges and universities to teach programming and conduct research into human-robot interactions. [citation needed] In 2017, an international team began research into using Pepper as versatile robot to help look after older people in care homes or sheltered accommodation.
Sophia is a female social humanoid robot developed in 2016 by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. [1] Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016, [2] and made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, United States. [3]
BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48*) [1] is a robotic face combined with chatbot functionalities, enabling simple conversation facilities. BINA48 is owned by Martine Rothblatt's Terasem Movement. [2] It was developed by Hanson Robotics and released in 2010. Its physical appearance is modeled after Bina Aspen, Rothblatt ...
Nadine is a gynoid humanoid social robot that is modelled on Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. [1] The robot has a strong human-likeness with a natural-looking skin and hair and realistic hands. Nadine is a socially intelligent robot which returns a greeting, makes eye contact, and can remember all the conversations had with it.