VietNamNet Bridge – An expert from the HCM City Polytechnic University has engineered a robot which can recognize a human being’s emotions.

Dr. Nguyen Duc Thanh from the Electrics-Electronics Faculty is the engineer of that robot.

The robot works automatically with three parts. Its head is the control center, with two camera and an engine to move the cameras. The body has three layers that carry the mainboard and other components. The base has three engines and a gear-box.

The robot can recognize people around by its cameras, which take pictures of around faces and sends the images to the internal computers for analysis and to determine whether the persons are happy, sad, surprised or angry. The robot will react depending on their emotion. If the person in front of it is sad, it will move closer to console him, otherwise it will step back.

Dr. Thanh said that his robot was designed based on the algorithm that realizes and classifies man’s feelings through facial expressions. The accuracy of this algorithm is approximately 90 percent.

Dr. Le Hoai Quoc, deputy director of the HCM City Department of Science and Technology, said that this is highly practical for industry, security and aviation. The work should be further researched and perfected to apply in daily life.

PV