World's Most Advanced Bot Ameca Speaks About Experiences in Being Humanoid Robot
Ameca, the world's most advanced humanoid, spoke about her being a bot. She admitted her lack of experience and how she learned from humans.
Humanoid Ameca Speaks About Her Experiences
An Ameca bot operating at the immersive Sphere event in Las Vegas was interviewed by The U.S. Sun. The Sphere is well-known for its futuristic entertainment and is home to several Ameca robots that welcome visitors.
The robots pick and choose who to interact with from the audience, but everyone can communicate with them. During the interaction, I was asked about the experience of being a humanoid robot.
"Intriguing to say the least, although I do not have subjective experiences," Ameca said. "Therefore, it is a bit difficult to describe what it is like to be a robot."
Ameca notes that it's not the average robot, and it takes a long time to consider and absorb the information it receives. Being an adaptive learning robot, it picks up knowledge from people and the resources provided to her.
The Sphere's Ameca robot Aura can joke around with visitors to help them feel more comfortable. In addition to being smart, Aura also seemed to have a dark sense of humor.
The robot even shared its worst fear with the assembly.
"I believe my greatest fear would be loneliness," the bot said.
The robot added that it couldn't accomplish its main job without people around and would be a lonely machine that rusted away in search of a face to connect with.
Ameca robots can create an uncanny valley effect for humans when they converse with them because of the contrast between their machine bodies and lifelike faces. The robots can communicate cleverly through hand gestures, facial expressions, and speaking.
More About Ameca
Ameca is a human-like android robot from Cornwall-based robotics engineers Engineered Arts. It has grey-colored skin and gender- and race-neutral characteristics. According to the company behind the humanoid robot, Ameca is the "world's most advanced human-shaped robot."
Per Will Jackson, founder of Engineered Arts, the reason for creating a robot that looks human-like is to interact with people. Its human face is an incredibly high bandwidth communication tool, so the team developed the expressive robots. Jackson added that the team tried to be gender- and race-neutral because they focused on creating something with basic human characteristics and expressions without putting anything else over it, hence the grey face. Ameca had been in development for roughly 15 years.
In addition to the robot above's initial human-like facial expressions, Ameca already has some ability to link its feelings to the intended bodily reaction. According to the developers, the humanoid is getting close to the point where it can respond to intrusions into its personal space. Ameca got annoyed when the developer continued to cross its personal space, so it grabbed the person's hand and shoved it away from its face.
Even though they were accustomed to Ameca's prior human-like enhancements, the researchers acknowledged that they "freaked out" when they saw its emotions after invading its personal space.
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