The Scariest Thing in ‘Resident Evil 7’ Is the Silence
Was that the wind? Or something much, much worse? Continue reading The Scariest Thing in ‘Resident Evil 7’ Is the Silence
Category Archives: emotions
A Scientific Explanation for Why Everyone Hates New Year’s Eve
There’s some truth to the adage that happiness equals reality minus expectations. Continue reading A Scientific Explanation for Why Everyone Hates New Year’s Eve
Simon Says Smile, Human!
The bad news is that when our robot overlords come to oppress us, they’ll be able to tell how well they’re doing just by reading our facial expressions. The good news? Silly computer-vision-enhanced party games!
[Ricardo] wrote up a quickie demonstration, mostly powered by OpenCV and Microsoft’s Emotion API, that scores your ability to mimic emoticon faces. So when you get shown a devil-with-devilish-grin image, you’re supposed to make the same face convincingly enough to fool a neural network classifier. And hilarity ensues!
What’s particularly cool about the game is that [Ricardo] was inspired to write it by reading Hackaday, …read more
MIT’s New Device Uses Wireless Signals to Detect Emotions
Facial expressions are not enough. Continue reading MIT’s New Device Uses Wireless Signals to Detect Emotions
Human-Robot Relationships Will Never Make the Leap From Sex to Love
If sex robots could love, would they even be robots at all? Continue reading Human-Robot Relationships Will Never Make the Leap From Sex to Love
‘Mood Robots’ Express Themselves by Changing Colour Like Octopuses
Well, this is adorable. Continue reading ‘Mood Robots’ Express Themselves by Changing Colour Like Octopuses