{"id":180151,"date":"2024-01-09T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-robot-that-can-play-video-games-with-humans"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:24:50","slug":"a-robot-that-can-play-video-games-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-robot-that-can-play-video-games-with-humans","title":{"rendered":"A robot that can play video games with humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-that-can-play-video-games-with-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, engineers have developed a wide range of robotic systems that could soon assist humans with various everyday tasks. Rather than assisting with chores or other manual jobs, some of these robots could merely act as companions, helping older adults or individuals with different disabilities to practice skills that typically entail interacting with another human.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan recently developed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> that can play video games with a human user. This robot, introduced in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3623809.3623832\">presented<\/a> at the 11th <i>International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction<\/i>, can play games with users while communicating with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been developing robots that can chat while watching TV together, and interaction technology that creates empathy, in order to realize a partner robot that can live together with people in their daily life,\u201d Masayuki Kanbara, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. \u201cIn this paper, we developed a robot that plays TV games together to provide opportunities for people to interact with the robot in their daily lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, engineers have developed a wide range of robotic systems that could soon assist humans with various everyday tasks. Rather than assisting with chores or other manual jobs, some of these robots could merely act as companions, helping older adults or individuals with different disabilities to practice skills that typically entail interacting with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}