Robots, our New Future

Meiji university, Tokyo have mad a rubbery robot face that simulates the six basic expressions; anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. The robot is hooked up to a database of words clustered by association. They tried some words, one like "war" and "love." The reaction to the word war was something you would expect from someone who knows the feeling of war. Quivering at what was assumed to be disgust and fear, the sound of love made a big pink smile on its face. "To live among people, robots need to handle complex social tasks. Robots will need to work with emotions, to understand and eventually feel them," said project leader Junichi Takeno of Meiji University. Although robot are nowhere near the point of matching humans, their goal is to have them live side by side with us. some may be unaware , but robots have advanced quite a lot in the past years. These helpful machines already do so much in Japan. For example, serving as receptionists, vacuuming office corridors, spoon-feeding the elderly, serve tea, greet company guests and chatter away at public technology displays. Robots are on new verege on making a better life for humans.