Aug 01 2008
An Emotional Robot!
An emotional robot! Unbelievable but scientists in Britain have developed human like robot which reacts and have feelings like human. Developed at the University of the West of England in Bristol was aimed to explore human reaction to machine that give emotional feedback’s.
The robot named Heart Robot have a beating heart, a breathing belly, and sensors that respond to movement, noise and touch, the robot reacts emotionally to being scared or cuddled. Actually it is half robot and half puppet. The Heart Robot is the star attraction of the ‘Emotibots’ exhibition at London’s Science Museum.
“Heart Robot looks like a cross between ET and Gollum and is about the size of a small child,” said Holly Cave, who helped organize the Emotibots event at the Science Museum where the machine was unveiled.
“He’s half robot, half puppet. You move him around by hand, but he has innate responses that appear emotional,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Telling about the reactions of children toward the Emotibots, Cave said, “They either want to hug and cuddle him, and look after him like a doll or baby, or they just want to scare him.”
A six-legged metallic spidery robot called Hexapod was also displayed there who records people watching him and plays back video on a plasma screen.
