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Tom Coggins
Guest Researcher, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
Social skills for digital humans
If anything, the Covid pandemic taught us that real-life interactions couldn’t be replaced by digital ones. This is just one of the reasons why Chirag Raman, assistant professor in the Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics group, wants digital agents or avatars to interact with humans in a more seamless and lifelike manner. Using artificial intelligence and knowledge of human behaviour, he is teaching machines to understand and deploy human-like social intelligence – verbally, vocally and visually. At the horizon are technologies for a wide range of applications, from distance learning and e-healthcare to immersive games.
Shelf-stocking robot working independently
A robot that helps store employees by moving independently through the supermarket and shelving products in their proper place. According to researcher Carlos Hernández Corbato of the Department of Cognitive Robotics, this may be possible in the future. But the robot must be able to adapt to the dynamic and challenging conditions in a supermarket.
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