| Title:
| Robot Teachers (w/embedded video)
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| Description:
| A third year computer science graduate student, Whitehill and his colleagues are working to make a new generation of robots that would be effective and responsive teachers. They believe the key is to train them to recognize and respond to facial expressions, the way humans do naturally. Whitehill described the demonstration, part of his research at the University of California, San Diego's Machine Perception Laboratory, as "almost like having a remote control built into your face."
The research falls under the umbrella of artificial intelligence -- the creation of machines that can behave like humans -- and Whitehill envisions a not-so-far-away future when robots will replace people as teachers, at least in areas that require a lot of repetition, such as foreign language and math drills. He doesn't, however, foresee them ever replacing philosophy teachers, for example.
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| Author:
| DARRYN BENNETT
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| Orig. Date:
| July 29, 2008
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| Source:
| voiceofsandiego.org.
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:02:37 -0700
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