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September 20, 2012

Robots and humans could ‘talk’ via new software

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by the BBC

Increasingly robots are being employed on assembly lines and elsewhere Software that will allow robots to “talk” with people is being developed at the University of Aberdeen. One of the main intentions of the project is to increase understanding between humans and automated systems “We want to allow humans to be more trusting of robots by opening up a communication channel where the machine can explain to the human why they did what they did,” said Dr Vasconcelos. No shouting. “At the moment they just do their thing and humans hope and pray that they do the right thing but there is no room for robots to explain.” The system will combine what are called formal argumentation techniques with Natural Language Generation (NLG), which essentially converts complex information and data into text summaries. “This is not about shouting at each other but offering reasons for an argument,” explained Dr Vasconcelos. It could ultimately led to human/robot business meetings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19586066#

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