Haptic Creature helps us accept our robotic overlords..
The latest craze in robotics has been to bring them closer to building emotional connections with us humans. This will help us to accept them when they finally achieve sentience and take over the earth. This latest on focus’ on the concept of communication through touch … but it really just reminds me of a tribble.
Steve Yohanan, from the University of British Colombia, created what is being called a “Haptic Creature,” a robot rabbit that is designed to mimic the interactions a person has with their pet, specifically, by responding when it’s touched or stroked by making breathing movements, inaudible purring vibrations, or by moving its ears.
Initial tests have been successful in being able to “elicit a range of emotions in humans.”
Personally, I welcome our new robotic rabbit overlords.
[...] The revolutionary bunny has been created by the University of British Columbia inventor in order to enable people to build emotional bonds with robots, a move which will bring us a step closer to ‘accepting our robotic overlords’ according to For the Love of Geeks. [...]