FACE android conveys human emotions with facial expressions

FACE android conveys human emotions with facial expressions:

Introduced by Japan’s Masahiro Mori, the “Uncanny Valley” principle states that the more a humanoid robot strives and fails to mimic human appearance, the less appealing it is to humans. In yet another attempt to cross the valley, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pisa, Italy, endowed a female-form humanoid called FACE with a set of complex facial expression features. They did so in the hope of finding the answer to one fundamental question: can a robot express emotions?.. Continue Reading FACE android conveys human emotions with facial expressions

Section: Robotics

Tags: Emotions, Humanoid

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