{"id":186274,"date":"2024-03-29T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/alarming-robot-anticipates-your-smile-returns-horrific-imitation"},"modified":"2024-03-29T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:22:44","slug":"alarming-robot-anticipates-your-smile-returns-horrific-imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/alarming-robot-anticipates-your-smile-returns-horrific-imitation","title":{"rendered":"Alarming Robot Anticipates Your Smile, Returns Horrific Imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alarming-robot-anticipates-your-smile-returns-horrific-imitation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a robot that can anticipate your smile and return it almost instantly. The new work, published as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adi4724\" class=\"\">study in the journal <i>Science Robotics<\/i><\/a>, is intended to help human-looking robots appear more natural. The actual expressions this one makes, however, look anything but.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQtIXmcGt0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Named \u201cEmo,\u201d the bot can predict your smile less than a second before it actually appears using cameras lodged into its pupils. Then just as the smile creeps up your face, as shown in an amusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AQtIXmcGt0g&t=70s\" class=\"\">video from <em><i>New Scientist<\/i><\/em><\/a>, Emo grimaces its horrific imitation of one in return, making sure to keep eye contact the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a jaded roboticist, but I smile back at this robot,\u201d study coauthor Hod Lipson, at Columbia University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2424545-this-robot-predicts-when-youre-going-to-smile-and-smiles-back\/\" class=\"\">told <i>New Scientist<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a robot that can anticipate your smile and return it almost instantly. The new work, published as a study in the journal Science Robotics, is intended to help human-looking robots appear more natural. The actual expressions this one makes, however, look anything but. Named \u201cEmo,\u201d the bot can predict your smile less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186274","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}