Qbo Meets Qbo; Robot Flirtation Commences - pondercosertrut1966

Last prison term we saw Qbo, information technology whol about the minuscule automaton that could "recognize" itself in the mirror in an experiment by the Corpra scientists. As secure, in the team's next step for their robot-cognisance experiments, they've brought in concert two Qbos that can recognize each other and have a little conversation.

This time more or less, the scientists slightly modified the Qbo's ROS (robot operating organisation) and "object recognizer" to identify another individual Qbo. Since robots wear't have faces (yet…), the scientist programed apiece robot to signal every which wa generated pry flashes to distinguish individual robots. When the green Qbo (Daniel 123) encounters another Qbo with a assorted nose flash, it knows it has met another extremity of its "species."

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In video, you can see Daniel 123 interacting with Arturo and recognizing itself. One time Daniel 123 turns close to, it encounters another blue robot (Jane 234) that it recognizes as another Qbo. Some robots are furnished with with speech synthesis (Festival) and realisation (Julius) programs that countenance them to exchange names and keep apart an extremely short–but totally-so-endearing–conversation with a flirting uncomparable-liner.

The Corpra scientists get on into great detail about wherefore their purely programing experiment is just a far-away first step towards real "consciousness"–which is still entirely up for deliberate as to what it means and makes it happen. But can't we skip that all psychological and philosophical give-and-take already, because honestly all we privation to see to it is around robot-on-robot interaction.

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[The Corpra via Engadget]