dimanche 15 janvier 2017

Miko the robot: Meet your child's new companion

A group of young techies has built a robot to be a friend and guide to children over five

The three men in the room have been trying since 2014 to infuse a seven-inch-tall robot with something that takes human beings a lifetime to learn — emotional intelligence. Their own belief systems may have a less-definite location but these co-founders of a startup named Emotix will soon market a companion droid that has a moral centre. “Let’s put it this way,” says CEO Sneh Vaswani, “the director of the movie may not necessarily be a good actor.” That is perhaps a line he has used before to explain the fledgling project. Although the Emotix ...

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Miko the robot: Meet your child's new companion

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