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I Don’t ♡ Heart Robot

July 30th, 2008 | 0 comments | Posted by Jen

The Heart Robot was unveiled this week in England, and its arrival marks a new age in artificial intelligence, where robots can be “emotional machines.”

On their website, Heart Robot’s creators describe how it responds to humans:

The rhythm of his breathing and heartbeat speeds up and he becomes more tense as he gets more ‘worried’. He slows down and relaxes as he becomes ‘happier’. His emotional state changes according to how you interact with him.

In other words, this robot, with its sack-of-rice body and Gizmo-ears, wants to be hugged, cuddled, and loved.

Sounds way too needy if you ask me.

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