The robot analyzes the frequency of the sound of human laughter and picks from three options to respond to the laugh using an artificial intelligence system, researchers say.
Laughter comes in many forms, from a polite chuckle to a contagious howl of mirth. Scientists are now developing an AI system that aims to recreate these nuances of humor by laughing in the right way at the right time. The Guardian reports: The team behind the laughing robot, which is called Erica,.
A group of scientists at Kyoto University in Japan are attempting to teach a robot to laugh by engineering an artificial intelligence (AI) that takes in signals via a shared laughter platform.