Robot and Emotions

From Human Emotions to Robot Emotions

The main difficulties that researchers face in understanding emotions are difficulties only because of the narrowmindedness of our views on emotions. We are not able to free ourselves from the notion that emotions are necessarily human emotions. I will argue that if animals have emotions, then so can robots. Studies in neuroscience have shown that animal models, though having limitations, have ...

Emotions: from brain to robot.

Some robots have been given emotional expressions in an attempt to improve human-computer interaction. In this article we analyze what it would mean for a robot to have emotion, distinguishing emotional expression for communication from emotion as a mechanism for the organization of behavior. Research on the neurobiology of emotion yields a deepening understanding of interacting brain structure...

Contextual Recognition of Robot Emotions

Robot Learning Driven by Emotions

The Vagueness of Robot Emotions

As the field of robotics matures, robots will need some method of displaying and modeling emotions. One way of doing this is to use a human-like face on which the robot can make facial expressions that correspond to its internal emotional state. Yet the connection between a robot’s emotional state and its physical facial expression is not an obvious one; in particular, there is no principled me...