David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"

[@ghettoManga]

I'm an illustrator and I did some concept work for this dude. He was designing and building robots in a building smaller than a 3 bedroom house. Easily the smartest dude I have ever been around. Although he wasn't rocking that crazy beard when I worked there!

[@E46_2ndA]

No one notices what he said about machines made to kill.? 2:32 yup were gonna have a robot war in the later future.

[@HorrorTubeHDTV]

We are in that generation where we will see these robots in every home, lucky i would say.

[@F4C3M3LT]

isn't "hanson robotics" in the same font that paul mitchell uses?

[@erentasdemir44]

I think this technology is amazing because it breaks down the basics of human interaction in an effort to create it. I think that getting them to recognize faces is the easy part, we already use facial recognition. Hopefully they stay sweet and curious!

[@shlarl]

Interacting with humans is more than facial expressions, it's sharing their inner most joys and despairs

[@RomanticRebel267]

Two thumbs up for the mustache and the robots!

[@iancampbellklein]

He's broken the mystery of how to control robots with mustaches!

[@audiofringe]

that dude at 3:15 looks so f!@#$%g cool i wish i was as intrinsicly confident as him.

[@YodouKomuso]

When he states "empathy" he should state simple imitation of empathy. When he states perception he should state imitation of perception.Dr. Hanson misconstrues the description of robotic "qualities". His very manner of speech and word choices makes massive metaphysical assumptions simply be assuming that humans are simply material mechanisms with no subtle energetic and conscious anatomy and processes. .ie what makes something actually alive.

[@gspahr]

I like how David looks like an old-fashioned inventor while he talks about robots and artifical intelligence...

[@AndrewSpriter]

you can hear the robot express how it feels to fall down an uncanny valley

[@Romanticanime4ever]

And all mind my goes to is, "Share and enjoy, share and enjoy!"

[@neijiaboy]

When a scientist makes a discovery does he do it purely out of the need to perform an intellectual activity? Does he do it because he wants to satisfy his will to power and raise his status? Does he do it as a result of an emotion that springs from experience that leaves a memory etched in his mind? And completing the discovery, does he stop there because the intellectual feat has been completed? Does he feel satisfaction and fulfillment? Does he wish to see it propagate and to develop it more?

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

You're right, having facial hair like that does not make one hipster.... But it does make one AWESOME!!!!

[@MK-ih6wp]

3:13 Is that the male version of Sophia Hanson, the famous AI robot with Saudi Arabian citizenship? Yes I realize it is an early male prototype, but it wouldn't surprise me if Hanson Robotics ever announces that Sophia is, indeed, "transgendered".

[@123isuper]

forgot to shave, but remembered to trim his ginormous sidburn-moustache combo perfectly...i think his einstein robot helped him out.

[@Ivhobbs23vI]

I can't decide which is more interesting the robots or his facial hair

[@xxemiliahxx]

I say his brain is in his his moustache. but seriously, this is amazing. like, my mind is blown right now.

[@Juwon0531]

No way it's so good!!!

[@RPFS2008]

The reason for making them laugh is to make them as human as possible. As he said it's the seeds of empathy.Empathy in ai will be needed because eventually we will have robots that are , for want of a better term, alive.... and much smarter than us.

[@DaleGribble1]

renaissance fair must have ended later than expected.

[@P00P0STER0US]

That is truly amazing. I sometimes ask myself whether I'd rather have a human-looking machine or something that doesn't look human at all. But the ultimate question for me is one of spirituality. If humans have a spiritual nature we can't perceive directly, how will it affect our interaction with machines that can effectively simulate human reason and emotion? Big question.

[@Scyne9]

I don't know about the quality of his robots, but that mustache I give two thumbs up! :D

[@jacobmagnuts9086]

Almost like a sells pitch. Network able to make a perception?

[@senorshorty16]

@peterjussi There's nothing more hipster than saying hipsters made something you liked a long time ago uncool. If you like the glasses fine same with mustaches but if youre being called something as obscure to most people as a hipster then you have multiple signs of being a hipster.

[@niniomigrania]

David: "Any questions?" *Audience rise hands* David: "Any questions not related with my mustache?" *Audience lower hands*

[@AverageWagie]

What's with all the hipster hate comments? He probably was just too busy programming a fucking complex robotic software and he forgot to shave. Mock his stache as much as you want, he's still more intelligent than all of us together.

[@saerain]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[@residenthearts]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords...or David Hanson. So...the robot in Prometheus is also named David.

[@drealm]

Great presentation. Wished it was longer.

[@upcycle]

perhaps future doctors will be robots with advance AI, using a synthetic human physical presense like these, when giving exams, or when provide psychotherapy?

[@ElRuva]

last time I saw Brian Orosco he was in American ninja warrior

[@choxblox]

Emotions in robots. See KZbin video "5b Humans, computers and emotions genes and algorithms". Humans, computers and emotions. See KZbin video "5c Humans, computers and emotions".

[@plki901]

Zeno is on the market, but it costs 14700 dollars. D:

[@lillielime]

i find tihs really creepy..... but cool at the same time

[@ndmclash]

Your comment made my night.

[@momsbluedress]

@hilmir Give me a second... I forgot where I left my sense of humor.

[@TheSecondChild]

Daniel Day-Lewis called, he wants his mustache back. Sorry, I had to say it. Heh. In all seriousness, this is pretty amazing, frightening and exciting, all at the same time. Work like this may well one day form the foundation of the bridge that allows robotics to cross the Uncanny Valley.

[@HiAdrian]

The short facial sequence at 3:26 looks great. Overall i have to agree with sudiin though. Much too short for a proper TED talk.

[@chungdha]

I doubt Einstein saw that coming.

[@sighcity]

Did anyone else watch the part of this video about the traffic in Stockholm?

[@flyhead2]

The intelligence and resourses which humans are willing to invest in folly amazes me. Any parent giving their kid a robot for company should be visited by social services.

[@SpinyNormanDinsdale]

Thank you! Wow this site is very interesting!

[@jakylili]

well the reason for creating humanoid robots is so that they can one day be very alike us. Emotions play a great part in the human species. A lot of the decisions we make are based on emotions

[@cepomwa]

when I looked at his mustache and beard I thought he was himself a robot.

[@SpinyNormanDinsdale]

I have so many questions! Where is a good place (website) to learn about AI developments and robotics?

[@neijiaboy]

But since we're talking about the human brain, technically, the bundle of nerves that connects the frontal lobes, which is said to provide intellectual functions is connected to the lower part of the brain, which has a more emotional function. However, again, it's a matter of relativity since the emotions a dog perceives when playing with a ball are not so easily comparable to emotions man feels when perceiving/creating a piece of music for instance.

[@RyanPMcGowan]

His mustache is far superior to that of Einsteins.

[@Yomioka]

When we create ourselves in our entirety, we will understand ourselves in our entirety. This is why we strive to create: to understand. And become god.

[@TacoJack]

Is this a David Cross skit. That's a great wig/stache selection.

[@tmh1130]

Is nobody else totally freaked out by this? When I watch this, all I can see is that a future where humans are obsolete is much closer than I thought. You can call it simply freaking out in the face of progress, but I think there's a legitimate fear or being replaced here. By making robots that are just as good as humans, we lose what makes us special and valued to others. We lose our motivation to strive for things.

[@billymcnasty05]

@Neurotrash1982 well here's the thing - there is a whole thought experiment in called the "philosophical zombie" which explores the idea of whether there can be a thing that appears to have all the behaviors of conscious being, yet somehow is not conscious. many people, though not all, argue that any thing which has the capability of displaying the convincing appearance of having emotions and thoughts must, in a certain sense, actually have them. although there is plenty of debate.

[@Logyke_reacts]

He has developed 😍 Dreams come true Sofia

[@plki901]

I WANT ROBOT FRIENDS!!! D:

[@WithWhiteWings]

That is SICK!

[@dt28469]

that mustash and sideburns are a symbol of high status THUMBS UP FOR MUSTASH AND SIDEBURNS!!!

[@madman3891]

woot this is so cool 50 more years and we might actually see robots walking around and handing us our coffee :P

[@glarblblarbl]

well, it's good to know that judgmental superficiality is alive and well on the internet. At least there are people around like David Hanson who encourage empathy, even if it's machines he's encouraging :)

[@0x435448]

So what is the connection between the robot's ability to imitate a person's facial expression and the size of that person's mustache?

[@DucatiQueen]

He left Leonardo out.......How could you !?

[@Reephio]

Los Robot's no van a necesitar un gran disco duro para responder todas nuestras preguntas, las respuestas estaran en Internet y ellos solo tendran que acceder a la bd y ya, lo demas seria basico

[@aaronkeogh]

It saddens me that one day a robot will be a child's friend. It already saddens me that a lot of my friends would rather play on a console or a pc than do something adventurous. To be honest I think it's just my friends but I do see it as something I'm not alone with.

[@WhatIAm99]

Why do we need robots that can interact with humans on a personal and emotional level? The word robot means 'labour'. Humans are already becoming withdrawn from the realities of life, given recent technological advances. The last thing we need is this final substitute for human contact.

[@sababs]

this stuff creeps me out

[@JacoPassedOverUs]

HE'S BUILDING A ROBOT HIPSTER ARMY

[@Aspenfash899]

the stache is awesome lols

[@jacobmagnuts9086]

When he mentions that word ''empathy'' did he mean that it had an actual perception from a supercomputer neural network, or it is just programmed to make cretin motions looking like emotion

[@crisspanda]

this is actually really impressive, but that mustache...THAT FUCKING MUSTACHE

[@Wykfo]

wow. that is absolutely amazing. manliest facial hair ever.

[@neijiaboy]

Also, and how is it significant that some species are capable of higher intelligence vis a vis others that are not? Comparing two contexts that are relatively different (because of their differing degree of intellect/instinct/emotion) has little bearing here, since again, emotion, intelligence, and will blend in different ways and proportions according to the entity in question.

[@himiko23]

So I was just looking for hansons music video and I found this.I think thats really cool and am I the only one who thinks the robot kinda looks like astro boy? haha

[@TheDrunkardHu]

wow, i want one of those tiny ones! XD

[@TheBadreception]

"and I, thadius jackson will time travel from the year 1800 into the future and develop a series of empathetic robots! I tell you I will and I shall!"

[@creaturebotman]

Disney's robots have been around for years. I've build robots, programed them with AI and I've come to the conclusion that humanoid robots are mere puppets. Some better than others. Hanson's robots are fine but Disney has had years of experience with animatronics, can't beat them on that so I've turn to "Soft Animatronics" (see my KZbin page to get what i mean) As for Hanson, keep it up Dude! you are doing fine.

[@freesk8]

Terminator. Just wait until machines take over the process of designing machines. Then we're toast.

[@raindropsonroses6]

what if they develop emotions like anger, jealousy, hatred? what about our future then? robots freak me the fuck out

[@ZombieZooMash]

Why the fuck would ANYONE want a machine able to feel and have emotions... We have humans for that...

[@canadianmaple09]

Holy shit! Was it 1850's facial hair flashback day?

[@joeyireland115]

The Batman fights real criminals, not floppy discs !

[@drchango2010]

@nitramyar and that's why this clip was linked on that LATFH site lol

[@Shaunt1]

Quick! The last one's Astro boy!

[@cmsahe]

Could you create a robot Pop Music Star?

[@neijiaboy]

I find it interesting that you seem to be willing to separate intellect from emotion. That's a convention that was abandoned a long time ago in continental philosophy, and is not even present in psychoanalysis either. And to those two you might want to add 'will'. The whole, in this case the human being, is bigger than the sum of his/her parts.

[@joeyireland115]

The Batman fights real criminals, not floppy discs

[@sleepyjoshua]

Shouldn't we skip emotion if we're going to give all the robots our crappy jobs?

[@ArgueExplain]

The robotic apocalypse will now feel bad about exterminating us.

[@int3rl0per]

It'd be funny to create a lovebot capable of realistically laughing at partner member size. :)

[@Umbalafum]

maybe this way trough the help of robots we humans learn how to interact with each other?!

[@compuhelp101]

You are never too young for toys..I wanna get it too..I'll be 15 or 16 when it comes out!! XD

[@user-eh3el2mk8c]

Scientists can't be hipsters, by definition. They may sometimes look like them, but only to destroy hipster culture from the inside. In this case, he's going to destroy them with his robots.

[@LadyTink]

This is more like what japan does with their robots... Here we use them to built cars, and search for and disarm bombs... In japan they use them for more social purposes. I hope we keep on heading towards robots as social things, opposed to using robots for death.

[@KrazyassKow]

All I heard was "Muttonchops"

[@karimwesterntch]

before watching the vid i was like this guy cant be a hipster, he's a scientist! but after seeing that stache n chops, yeah he's a hipster

[@KodakII]

Has NOBODY seen the animatrix? This is not going to end well.

[@Flamez0nFire]

Astro Boy.

[@DoogieTalons]

I for one will welcome our Robot overlords... :)

[@SpinyNormanDinsdale]

That was all I could think about too :D

[@0rluh]

hes so cute. Even his bald robot is cute.

[@StelmariaonE7]

@workingclasssociety: because they can, isn't that why people do most things? Why did we go to space? because we could.