A project in Europe could perfect the art of making robots that can “learn when a person is sad, happy or angry.” The Feelix Growing project is now using software that gives robots the ability to understand how a person is feeling. It’s done through feedback from cameras and sensors. The bots first look at a human’s face and facial expression and then they examine the voice and proximity to determine what kind of mood they’re in. The robot learns from experience as it interacts. Hit the link for a video.

[Physorg]

Most of you probably already know about Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics. Who knew the rules had expanded to 30? Things like:

6. A robot may not roll down the window shout out the surprise endings of movies while driving past a theater line.

and:

8. A robot may not act in such a fashion as would make dogs obsolete, because dogs are less expensive than robots, and robots should be reserved for science things.

and even:

11. A robot, specifically a big, wide robot, may not pretend to be a refrigerator and then make a scary noise when a human being opens it.

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[Somethingawful]