How Can Robots Get Our Attention?

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Uploaded by on Mar 7, 2011

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human's attention and when it falls short.

Aaron Bobick, professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech's College of Computing, discusses why it's important for robots to understand social convention, if they are going to successfully interact with humans.

The research was performed using the robot Simon, from the Socially Intelligent Machines lab directed by Assistant Professor Andrea Thomaz in the College of Computing.

For the written story see http://digitallounge.gatech.edu/digitallife/index.html?nid=64819

Video: Rob Felt, David Terraso/Georgia Tech
Photos: Rob Felt/Georgia Tech

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  • I like how Simon appears to be completely ignoring this guy while he's talking, posed in a classic teenage eye-roll.

  • now imagine it with a minigun. :D

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  • amazing robot programming. In this program we are interacting with robots as if they have emotion..we have here ROBO MAN!

  • amazing

  • You guys should play portal 2. You may get some ideas

  • 0:35 <- lol'd hard

  • @ivjames

    He looks like he is thinking "I hate my job..."

  • - HERE MAKE CLICK LOTS OF HUMANOID ROBOTS === :-)

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