There is a camera on the ceiling of the room that is also sending the video recordings to the server database. The web-based child-to-robot interface to send commands to the cloud. The child uses it to interact with the robot companion. The teacher uses to interact with the robot companion and also sends commands to the cloud. The robot companion to behave upon the information of the experts on ASD and the therapists—to detect stressful situations for instance. Researchers to login to the cloud system to watch and code the video in order to provide human feedback to the artificial intelligent AI system.
The information from the questionnaires to be stored in the server database and to be seen by the researchers. The process of the acquired information to create models and descriptors of the interaction state of the children. Robots in the project have a preprogrammed personality because it is expected to interact with the children on a high-level dialogue and use natural and social cues [ 43 ]. For emotion recognition exercises, the companion robot is expected to express emotions so that the child can perceive them as such.
The robot behaves according to this by-default personality. There is evidence in the literature that a good match between a patient and a coach produces better results of therapy or treatment [ 57 ].
And because algorithms that learn how to customize certain objects to customize personal characteristics have existed now for more than 10 years [ 58 ], the robot, over time, changes its behavior. In the current project, the personalization of the robot is based on information the researchers get from the parents through questionnaires.
This information is drawn from the cloud. Google was granted a patent for methods and systems for robot personality development. This disclosure patented a process to create robots permeated with personality or personalities, drawn from cloud computing capacities, and capable of interact with users [ 12 ]. The robot collects mass information from the user and its surroundings and tailors a personality to interact upon with the user.
The ultimate goal is to interact with the user more personally. The patent describes what is the method that will use to collect the information to forge the personality of the robot, i. Some examples of raw data and devices to which the robot might have access are briefly enounced in the patent:.
The robot might have access to the information stored in online profiles the user might have on the Internet, e. The robot might send all this unstructured data to the cloud and receive back processed data to customize the personality of the robot. As we can see in Figure 2 , the interaction could not only be between the user and the robot, but also between the robot and other sources, such as other sensors, other robots or the Internet itself.
These latter interactions could be done directly, e. Indeed, it will be able to share information with other cloud computing devices. Robot and Cloud Interaction. The idea is to evoke positive responses when the user feels sad, either computationally or locally if a mood recognition database has been provided to the robot [ 12 ].
In this model, moreover, Google envisages the possibility of transferring the robot personality, through the cloud, to other robots. US 8,, B1 Google Patent is called into question below. Using the Alice US Supreme Court judgment as a base, the patent is questioned about its adequacy to the conditions for patentability established in title 35 United States Code [ 59 ].
As established in the case Verdegaal Bros v. Union Oil Co. Patents are the basic tools for scientific and technological work, and they tend to promote innovation, not to impede it, and that is why these aspects are not patentable [ 61 ].
Google, nonetheless, patented a broad method—the creation of a robot personality using cloud robotics—that might impede innovation. The Supreme Court, however, states that an invention is not directly invalid because it is an abstract concept, but it will remain eligible for a patent when those concepts can be applied to a new and useful end [ 62 ].
As described in the next subsection, Google patents a well-known method to process all the collected information for the creation of the personality of the robot, which is not something new: all social robots have a default personality [ 43 ].
Breazeal stated that the physical appearance, the robot manners of movement and its manner of expression convey personality traits to the person who interacts with [ 63 ]. According to her, this fundamentally influences the manner in which people engage the robot. From to , they already developed Kismet with infant-level social competences that were already running in fifteen computers. The Court adds in the Mayo judgment that, in order to be eligible for a patent, the application of the law-of-nature, natural-phenomenon and abstract-idea concepts must be determined to be an inventive concept [ 61 ].
Softbank has marketed the use of cloud AI and an emotion engine for a robot already as a product [ 66 ]. The idea of creating a robot that could interact with information from the physical world dates from too [ 67 ]. The use of sensors to collect grounded and real information from the user is not new [ 27 ]. Transferring the collected information to a single collection point, the possibility to share it among robots robots talking to their neighbors is not new.
Winfield addressed largely the way collective robots work [ 68 ]. Building a personality in a robot is not new either. Breazeal and Fong et al. Multiple personalities, therefore, are not a new concept either.
Transferrable personalities are neither a new concept. Both the method and the hardware have been already addressed in previous literature and products.
Furthermore, the construction of personality for robots to interact with humans is one of the very basic foundations of human-robot interaction studies. The problem is that cloud robotics is a logical step toward solving the problems networked robots are encountering [ 26 ].
Indeed, the use of cloud robotics mitigates mostly all the constraints related to their existing framework [ 25 ]. The way Google expounds it reminds to what happened in Bilski v. Actually, Google patents some well-known procedures to collect data from different sources, to use this data to personalize the robot [ 58 ]. The Google patent describes what is the method to create the personality of the robot and uses examples to represent its possibilities.
These examples raise several ethical questions. Here we will mention: 1 the safety of the user produced by reinforcing learning ; 2 the possibility to talk to dead people; and 3 the delegation of autonomy which could lead to robot responsible scenarios.
At block , the method includes modifying the default user-profile to incorporate the estimated personality so as to provide a modified persona. This can be a transitory modification or something more permanent. For example, the robot may prepare food for the user using peanut oil. The user, who may be allergic to peanut-based foods, may eat the meal and have an allergic reaction. The user may further scold the robot for cooking the meal with peanut oil. E-Mail Us. TV Stations.
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