Jeremy Gutsche
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Because robots aren’t freaky enough, Japanese researchers have created a robot that can make 36 different human expressions. The robot, named Kansei, makes a frightened face when he sees the word ‘bomb’ and he a happy face when he sees the word ‘sushi’. Kansei was developed at Meiji University’s School of Science and Technology. He can recognize 500,000 keywords and he has an emotion lined up for each one. The project leader, professor Junichi Takeno, noted, “What we are trying to do here is to create a flow of consciousness in robots so that they can make the relevant facial expressions.”  The robot has 19 movable parts underneath the silicone face mask. When the robot hears the word "president", the online database picks up associated words such as "Bush," "war" and "Iraq" and creates an expression which the researchers said is meant to mix fear and disgust.
Takeno says that in a few years, Kansei will also have speech abilities and will be able to convey feelings, which could be useful in places such as nursing homes for the elderly.
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