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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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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The design is very human indeed

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've seen better from 10 years old video games.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I can't help imaging it would just be groundskeeper Willie.

[–] 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

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The robot is more likely to pass the Turing test before it can understand a Scottish brogue.