By 2030, 80% of humans will engage with smart robots on a daily basis. This is one of the predictions Gartner analysts made at the opening keynote of Gartnerm IT Symposium, which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona. Generative AI is fundamentally shifting how people and machines interact.
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EU-Funded Project Aims to Facilitate Social Collaboration Between Humans and Robots
Roboverse Reply will be spearheading the EU-funded project “Fluently.” The primary objective of this initiative is to create a platform fostering genuine social collaboration between humans and robots in industrial settings by incorporating the latest AI-driven decision-making advancements.
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Jonathan Shihao Ji, a computer science professor at Georgia State University, has received a $10 million grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to address critical problems in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics with a focus on human-robot interaction, 3D virtual environment reconstruction, edge computing and trustworthy AI.
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Someone’s prior beliefs about an artificial intelligence agent, like a chatbot, have a significant effect on their interactions with that agent and their perception of its trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness, according to a new study.
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In a virtual-reality study that sheds light on the intricacies of human-robot interactions, researchers have discovered that humans are capable of experiencing empathic embarrassment when witnessing robots go through embarrassing situations.
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Sereact recently revealed PickGPT, a novel robotics transformer that merges Large Language Models (LLMs) with Computer Vision. This development paves the way for guiding robots using natural language, allowing anyone, regardless of their background knowledge in robotics, to interact with these machines.
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San Francisco has seen an growth in protests by residents rise against disturbances caused by autonomous vehicles. A growing number of protestors have found an unusual method of expressing their discontent – by placing traffic cones on the hoods of these robotaxis, rendering them immobile. Their rallying cry is a defiant rejection of the emerging autonomous future, summed up in the phrase: “Hell no, we do not consent to this.”
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Scientists found that students given a task by a social robot with a voice programmed to be engaging and inspiring performed better and were more creative than students who received the task from an identical robot with a flat voice.
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A Cornell University-led experiment in which two people play a modified version of Tetris revealed that players who get fewer turns perceived the other player as less likable, regardless of whether a person or an algorithm allocated the turns.
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Oregon State University leading $5M effort to accelerate robotics research
Researchers at Oregon State University are part of a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate robotics research by making standardized humanoid robots available to the scientific community.