Communicative Robots

[Admin]

As part of the ROCKIT strategic roadmapping action in the area of multimodal conversational interaction technologies, CITIA has arrived at a set of five target research and innovation scenarios, presented and discussed here.

These scenarios represent a number of common themes arising from the workshops organized uring the process: accessibility, multilinguality, the importance of design, privacy by design, systems for all of human–human, human–machine, and human–environment interactions, robustness, security, potentially ephemeral interactions, and using the technology to enable fun.

This thread presents and discusses the fourth scenario: Communicative Robots which can be found in the attached document.

[Peter Hauser]

Communicate Robots?
Well, we built those 15 years ago - talking pets who deliver fairy tail stories (radio interface in the nose, delivery of the content by TTS...
have robots to communicate in social environments - maybe - but there will be Mio's of volunteers who'd like to do the same for basically no pay!
Robot communication in hostile environnments - yes, there are markets, but very limited volume and space.
Therapy and education - education indeed - combined with self learning, house learning, distance learning applications, big growth market at hand today - see all of the heavy populated emerging markets and big disctances to overcome to Education Institutes.
Surgical and medical robots - demand at hand today, partial impementations too - to replace physicians for many of the operational activities - a clear yes.
Toy robots are to become equipped with sub sets of smart mobile devices - as far as gaming apps are to become combined, there are big opportunities to go for.