Thursday, March 28

The Omoy robot aspires to become the voice of your conscience | Digital Trends Spanish

Japan is an oasis of creativity. Instant noodles, the bullet train, personal calculators and compact discs are some of the Japanese inventions. Their ingenuity also makes them pioneers in the development of humanoid robots, but perhaps there never was one as curious as Omoy.

Although it is far from being a personal assistant like Alexa, the small android developed by the universities of Tsukuba and Nagoya is a kind of spiritual adviser. Its function is to read text messages aloud, but also to guide its owner on how to act if the communication is not entirely friendly.

The artificial intelligence with which it was equipped gives Omoy the ability to assess the nature of human-to-human communications, direct the user’s reaction and even recommend that they act with empathy towards their interlocutor.

According to the development team, led by Professor yohei noguchithis “mediator” robot element can modify the receiver’s anger.

A study involving 94 people showed that the effect of the Omoy robot suppressed negative feelings such as anger in 23 percent of cases. When the android issued empathic messages, the user’s drive for revenge was reduced in 22 percent of cases.

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