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Researchers at a Scottish University have helped develop a human-like receptionist robot that can closely emulate human conversation and facial expressions. (techxplore.com)
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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It’s gonna be awhile before robot receptionists don’t give me a yuck feeling. I’m sure as the tech improves and it doesn’t look so uncanny valley it’ll get better. Actually now that I think about it, just make it super robot looking idc