Humanized Robot Essay

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We want to build humanoid robots capable of rich social interactions with humans, including natural communication, cooperation, and tutelage. Humans display a remarkably flexible and rich array of social competencies, demonstrating the ability to interpret, predict, and respond appropriately to the behavior of others. People understand each other in social terms, allowing us to engage others in a variety of complex social interactions including communication, social learning, and cooperation. Developing robots with these social abilities is a critical step towards enabling them to be intelligent and capable in their interactions with humans, able to cooperate with people as capable partners, able to learn quickly and effectively from natural human instruction, are intuitive to communicate with, and are engaging for humans to interact with. Such issues must be addressed to enable many new and exciting applications for robots that require them to play a long-term role in people’s daily lives. This paper presents an overview of our work towards building socially intelligent, cooperative humanoid robots that can work and learn in partnership with people. 1 Introduction Many of the earliest motivations for developing humanoids centered on creating robots that can play a role in the daily lives of ordinary people. Our living spaces and the artifacts we use are engineered to support our human morphology. Accordingly, developing robots with a humanoid morphology would not require that we re-engineer our environment and artifacts to accommodate them. In addition, humanoid robots support human social cues and therefore would not require that people be specially trained to communicate with them. These arguments center on the issue of designing interfaces for robots that are well matched to the human environment and to people who are already experts in social interaction.

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