"NeCoRo, a robot with synthetic fur giving it a feline appearance, introduces communication in the form of playful, natural exchanges as between a person and a cat. Via internal sensors of touch, sound, sight, and orientation, human action/thoughts can be perceived, and feelings/wants are generated based on internal feelings. Using 15 actuators inside the body, it behaves in response to its feelings. It will get angry if someone is violent to it, and express satisfaction when stroked, cradled, and treated with lots of love. Based on its own physiological rhythms, it will express its desire to sleep or cuddle. Moreover, through a learning/growth function, while living with each other day after day, the cat will become attached to its owner and its personality will adjust to the owner. And as it begins to remember the sound of the owner's voice and its own name, it will recognize its name when called out by the owner."
That's right. Robotic cats are coming back in a big powerful way. Especially robotic cats designed by people who have never looked at at cat more than possibly once, on a moonless prairie night, while very drunk.
Watch and learn!
2 comments:
All they had to do was make its neck a little thinner and its head a little bigger. You'd think that if they were going for the disproportionatly cute--bigger eyes, head, paws? What were the boffins thinking?
I don't know, looking at those pictures of it in "movement", I think they'd have to toss the whole project and start from scratch.
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