AI,<\/a> can be challenging. It is difficult to conduct a properly controlled experiment with live people interacting, although, looking at photos or videos of people is less natural, and reactions are not the same.<\/p>\n\u201cThe hope is that with androids like Nikola, we can have our cake and eat it too,\u201d explained Sato. \u201cWe can control every aspect of Nikola\u2019s behaviour, and at the same time study live interactions.\u201d The first step was to see if Nikola\u2019s facial expressions were understandable.<\/p>\n
A person certified in FACS scoring was able to identify each facial action unit, indicating that Nikola\u2019s facial movements accurately resemble those of a real human. A second test showed that everyday people could recognise the six prototypical emotions\u2014happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust\u2014in Nikola\u2019s face, albeit to varying accuracies. This is because Nikola\u2019s silicone skin is less elastic than real human skin and cannot form wrinkles very well. Thus, emotions like disgust were harder to identify because the action unit for nose wrinkling could not be included.<\/p>\n
Guardian robot project results<\/h3>\n \u201cIn the short term, androids such as Nikola can be important research tools for social psychology or even social neuroscience,\u201d added Sato. \u201cCompared with human confederates, androids are good at controlling behaviours and can facilitate a rigorous and empirical investigation of human social interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example, the researchers asked people to rate how natural Nikola\u2019s emotions are as the speed of his facial movements were systematically controlled. They researchers discovered that the most natural speed was slower for some emotions, like sadness, than it was for others, such as surprise.<\/p>\n
While Nikola is still without a body, the ultimate objective of the Guardian Robot Project is to build an android that can assist people, particularly those which physical needs who might live alone. \u201cAndroids that can emotionally communicate with us will be useful in a wide range of real-life situations, such as caring for older people, and can promote human wellbeing,\u201d concluded Sato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The RIKEN Guardian Robot Project showcase their newest project to create an expressive android that can convey the six basic emotions through facial expressions. Researchers from the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project in Japan have made an expressive android child named Nikola that successfully conveys six basic emotions. A new study, published in\u00a0Frontiers in Psychology, tested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[830],"tags":[570,24128,24208],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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