Cuddlebots can recognize you by touch alone

It appears that an iconic piece of the twenty-third hundred just set ashore at the University of British Columbia ’s SPIN Lab . It ’s called Cuddlebot , and it looks — and even responds — in a way that ’s spookily reminiscent of Star Trek ’s tribbles . develop by Anna Flagg , it can sense and oppose to nine different variety of gestures . By using conductive fur , Cuddlebot can severalise if someone ’s chafe it , tickling it , or blowing on it — and , after a while , can even tell who ’s doing it .

Flagg unveiled Cuddlebot at the IEEE Haptics Symposium last year and will be showing it off ata group discussion in Barcelonain a few week . The purpose of Cuddlebot is to test whether forward-looking and imaginative robot like this can be made to recognize touch and respond in appropriate manner .

Nidhi Subbaraman from MIT Review late spoke to Flagg :

Other members of the SPIN laboratory are training machine to infer emotion from the motion they recognize – the second part of the grand architectural plan . Eventually , Flagg told me , bot like the Cuddlebot could become companions with therapeutic uses in hospitals . Cuddlebot has already take part in tests with Kyd and believably unsurpringly , was a hit .

But healthy adults could use Cuddlebot too . I ’ve write about a cell phone hack that sent tactile messages to your conversation married person as you talked . I mentioned this to Flagg , who agree that a Cuddlebot - inspired furry cover may come in in ready to hand in such an illustration . One day , it may even right generalize the emotion being sent . Flagg ’s collaborator Karen MacLean has said that a pocket - sized Cuddleblot , perhaps tuck off in your purse , could be useful as a portable stress sensor . Connected with your sound , it might know when to bother you with certain alerts , and when not to .

More atMIT Review .

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