Can Robots Have Emotions?


In our college we never were serious towards practicals, assignments, lectures. These all seemed very hectic to all of us. But all these things were unavoidable so sometimes i wondered if i had a machine who understood my emotions and creativity that would be of great help to me…. I would enjoy the college life and would be known as scholar by the grace of my machine – “ROBOT”

Yes, Robot is what i meant by machine with emotions and creativity.
Here are some knowledge bites related to Robots with emotions.
First of all Can we make Robots with emotion? And if yes then the next question would be how?…..Yeah

By using Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence with combination of Fuzzy Logic.

‘Robot’ word is originated from Czech word “Roboto” means, forced worker. First arm which is pro grammaticality made for automatic working (Robot) was invented in 1979 by George Devol.

What is the need Of Emotion in Robots?

Computers or Expert Systems should be designed to recognize, express, and influence emotion in users.
Like to complete my C++ assignments, my robot has to know the way i think or the way i want the assignment to be done.


What do we really mean by AI(Artificial Intelligence)?

It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence.

Fuzzy Logic? What is it…
“Fuzzy Logic is basically a multivalued logic that allows intermediate values to be defined between conventional evaluations like yes/no, true/false, black/white, etc. Notions like rather warm or pretty cold can be formulated mathematically and processed by computers.”

Do we know what is Neural Network?

It is inspired by the biological nervous systems.

It is composed of a large number of highly interconnected processing elements
(neurones) working in unison to solve specific problems.

Here we have an Emotional Robot Developed by Society of Robots

What is the use of robot in our life?

As i already mentioned, i wished i had a robot doing my day to day work for me obviously as a servent. So if a machine behave as a servant as well as friend is always good.
In many fields of science , entertainment & engineering these robots can play important role.

Do we need to get scared of these machines?

As we have seen in most of Hollywood movies Man Vs Machine war may start.
Robots may try to refuse to be slaves and they can become enemy of their masters.
But all these things are fictions unless a truly emotional Robot is made.
So till then enjoy these things only in Movies.

  1. #1 by michael.fernando - October 15th, 2007 at 18:28

    Interesting piece of information..
    There are many emotional Robots that are currently available in the EAST.. Pets, Robots that can cry, etc..
    The Man vs Machine war though, is sure to happen in the future..

    Well written! Good effort in the end..
    Keep writing!

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