 Kansei’s ability to communicate feelings makes it one step closer to recognizing when humans are happy or sad, an important characteristic for machines expected to one day help care for the elderly, clean house, or greet people at a reception desk.
Kansei, which means “sensibility” and “emotion” in Japanese, also contains speech recognition software, a speaker to vocalize, and motors that contort artificial skin on its face into expressions. The robot could even one day learn to distinguish and articulate whether foods taste good or bad.
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As digital entertainment streams into consumers’ lives, they are amassing valuable troves of stored data. A recent study conducted by KRC Research and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies found that U.S. adults have an average of $1,135 worth of entertainment stored on devices such as laptops/PCs, MP3 players, DVRs, mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and portable movie players, and that their appetite for more storage is growing as our lives become more mobile.