On first name terms with robots
Research consortium investigates robots’ potential social skills
Robots and AI are growing in importance – in industry, services, medicine and in private settings. The Bavarian Research Foundation and a Bavarian consortium from industry will jointly invest almost four million euros in the coming two years in the research consortium FORSocialRobots that is aimed at significantly improving the social skills of automated systems and robots. Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke, head of the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), will assume the role of speaker for the research project set to run over three years. Read more …