Robotic technologies are predicted to become vital in retail, health-care and business. They will provide humans support with routine-based tasks, allowing for our creativity and productivity to flourish. However, some basic human emotions that make our interactions with each other seamless, seemed impossible to program into robots. Until now.
Columbia engineers have reportedly taught a robot to ‘place themselves in their partner’s shoes’.
Our findings begin to demonstrate how robots can see the world from another robot’s perspective. The ability of the observer to put itself in its partner’s shoes, so to speak, and understand, without being guided, whether its partner could or could not see the green circle from its vantage point, is perhaps a primitive form of empathy”
In this video, robots are seen correctly predicting future moves, 98/100 times. This demonstrates a complex and high understanding of patterns of thoughts. Click below to watch!