{"id":24820,"date":"2016-04-19T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/robots-that-act-differently-when-youre-around"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:08","slug":"robots-that-act-differently-when-youre-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/robots-that-act-differently-when-youre-around","title":{"rendered":"Robots That Act Differently When You\u2019re Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More broadly, there\u2019s a paradox in all this, that reflects the overarching direction of contemporary robotics. As machines become more and more general-purpose, they\u2019re also going to become much better at tailoring their behavior to different kinds of people\u2014and even eventually to different individuals. Already, SoftBank\u2019s Pepper<\/a> robot, a humanoid designed to interactive with people, is billed as the first machine able to read human emotions. For people to accept robots as they increasingly work their way into various areas of our lives, robots will have to develop fairly sophisticated understanding of individual human needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an assistive robot tries to help you, how much help you want really depends on your personality and the situation,\u201d Dragan says. That\u2019s also why robots are in some cases changing form\u2014some of the machines designed to care for humans, for example, will have soft, cuddly bodies<\/a> rather than just hard metal exoskeletons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have more and more capable robots,\u201d Dragan told me. Which means when machines interact with people, we\u2019ll be able to customize them depending on who\u2019s around; or if humans are around at all.<\/p>\n

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More broadly, there\u2019s a paradox in all this, that reflects the overarching direction of contemporary robotics. As machines become more and more general-purpose, they\u2019re also going to become much better at tailoring their behavior to different kinds of people\u2014and even eventually to different individuals. Already, SoftBank\u2019s Pepper robot, a humanoid designed to interactive with people, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24820","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67678,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24820\/revisions\/67678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}