How to Build Robots that Make Friends and Influence People

Abstract

To interact socially with a human a robot must convey intentionality, that is, the human must believe that the robot has beliefs, desires, and intentions. The authors have constructed a robot, named "Kismet," that exploits natural human social tendencies to convey intentionality through motor actions and facial expressions. They present results on the integration of perception, attention, motivation, behavior, and motor systems that allow the robot to engage in infant-like interactions with a human caregiver.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA434716

Entities

People

  • Brian Scassellati
  • Cynthia L. Breazeal

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Body Regions
  • Caregivers
  • Competition
  • Detectors
  • Dynamic Response
  • Eye
  • Eye Movements
  • Happiness
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Processing
  • Language
  • Motivation
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychological Theory
  • Software Agents
  • Software Design

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction