It won’t vomit food or wet clothes like a baby, but the robot is sophisticated enough to express the facial expressions of a real baby, the Daily Mail reported.
The highly bionic robot, named Diego San, is capable of expressing a number of baby expressions, including a smile, a grimace and a frown. It’s hard to tell the difference between the robot baby and the real baby just by looking at the faces.
The robot, which mimics a one-year-old baby, has gone viral on YouTube and can display a range of emotions including happiness, sadness, panic, confusion and anger. It can even bite its lower lip with a straight face like a baby on the verge of tears.
Diego SAN, built by experts at the Hanson Robotics Perception Lab at the University of California, San Diego, has a high-resolution camera that can see people’s gestures and expressions.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Diego SAN, a baby robot developed in the US, is capable of expressing a range of emotions, including confusion (left), happiness (right) and crying (right)
The researchers reassembled the robot’s lower jaw to enhance its ability to express emotions
The baby robot is made of a material called frubber, which is used to make its soft skin and other robots. It can also use artificial intelligence to simulate the behavior of a baby, just like a baby.
Facial expressions are an important part of how babies communicate with the outside world, helping them form relationships with people. The robot baby is an upgrade from previous versions of the technology that completely reassembles its jaw.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Making robots understand and present facial expressions is an important part of teaching them empathy, says David Hansen of hanson’s Robotics Perception Lab. Being able to give these robots artificial intelligence and empathy is important, and goes well beyond building robots for war.