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 ===Exploring and Designing our Future Robot Companions===
-(viewable at http://lirec.org/node/1864)
+(documentary for [[project lirec]] viewable at http://lirec.org/node/1864)
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 **Peter McOwan:** Lirec is a very large multi-disciplinary project looking at developing new forms of technology for artificial companions. Those are robotic companions or virtual character companions. The key elements to the project that really make it different are the fact that we are using real long-term studies in genuine environments in an office, in a house. Also, we are looking at this rather intriguing idea of migration that the entity, the intelligence within a robot can move from one physical body to another, or possibly to a handheld device. There are lots of very interesting technical questions, but also some really fascinating psychological and kind of broader societal questions that are in the project and those are all fused together in Lirec, which is an exciting way to explore the next step in human robot relationships.
-**Adam Miklosi:** The termitology basically means studying behavior from a biological point of view. Etologists basically believe that explanations of behavior can originate from biological causes whether they are mental or physical causes but this is what we use as an explanation of them. The other aspect of etology is that basically you draw your conclusion from natural behavior of the animal. The whole idea for our research was need not really coming from robotics, it was purely basically interest in the way how dogs have been changed during evolution and making them such a good that [inaudible 3:55] as to live with humans. Actually the dog is a very good model for robotics. Robots should be anything but a human. I learned that during Lirec actually. You can imagine that dogs are already so successful and they are not human like at all if you take it really seriously. Why is it not a good model for [inaudible 4:14], especially if our technology at the moment is very far from being so sophisticated as a human is already? How should another agent, whether that be a dog or robot, behave or perform in order to get the anthropomorphizing from humans, or in other words, that humans allow these creatures to live with them together, which is, I think, is a big honor if you'd like, or a big possibility for a creature. What are the traits that are useful to the project? I think that, for example, one is what we think is important is the interest, social interest. That's what dogs clearly show, that our interest in what is going on. A dog puppy is looking in the eyes, is looking at the head, is following the human around all the time and so on. This is what also, to some extent, should be displayed by a robot. If you see that in a robot, you immediately feel, maybe, some sort of social contact. I think that helps humans to accept this robot in their environment.
+**Adam Miklosi:** The term Ethology basically means studying behavior from a biological point of view. Ethologists basically believe that explanations of behavior can originate from biological causes whether they are mental or physical causes but this is what we use as an explanation of them. The other aspect of ethology is that basically you draw your conclusion from natural behavior of the animal. The whole idea for our research was need not really coming from robotics, it was purely basically interest in the way how dogs have been changed during evolution and making them such a good that [inaudible 3:55] as to live with humans. Actually the dog is a very good model for robotics. Robots should be anything but a human. I learned that during Lirec actually. You can imagine that dogs are already so successful and they are not human like at all if you take it really seriously. Why is it not a good model for [inaudible 4:14], especially if our technology at the moment is very far from being so sophisticated as a human is already? How should another agent, whether that be a dog or robot, behave or perform in order to get the anthropomorphizing from humans, or in other words, that humans allow these creatures to live with them together, which is, I think, is a big honor if you'd like, or a big possibility for a creature. What are the traits that are useful to the project? I think that, for example, one is what we think is important is the interest, social interest. That's what dogs clearly show, that our interest in what is going on. A dog puppy is looking in the eyes, is looking at the head, is following the human around all the time and so on. This is what also, to some extent, should be displayed by a robot. If you see that in a robot, you immediately feel, maybe, some sort of social contact. I think that helps humans to accept this robot in their environment.
 **Kerstin Dautenhahn:**  We have a lot of recent activities in the project, thinking about the computational architectures, how to organize that memory. What should the robot remember? It will clearly not remember every single thing that happens in every split second. You need some AI procedures and algorithms that are making sure that the robot remembers things that are meaningful and that are also supportive of the relationship. [Inaudible 5:53] Portugal is also involved in this research.
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 **Kheng Lee Koay:** The main robots that we work on are the sunflower robots. It was designed by me during the second phase of the project because we need a system that had more expressive features. We decided to focus on sound, light, and physical body movement.
-**Kerstin Dautenhahn:**  We used the robot as a basic mobile platform. It can navigate in the house. It can remind people. It knows about the schedule of people. It can alert them to certain events in the house. This house has been designed as a smart house also. There are more than 40 sensors distributed in this house. The robot is able to perceive when someone rings the doorbell, when the kettle is on, when the kettle goes off, or when someone opens the fridge door. Then we have a robot that we use for a physical assistant. It's a KOBOT 3, designed by [inaudible 20:02] in Germany. It's made of industrial-type components. It has a large manipulator, so it is able to pick up objects. For example, it is able to pick up your woolen hat or your coat and hand it to you in scenarios where maybe people are preparing to go outside. The robot helps them to fetch some clothing. The third robot that we use is the IBO, the SONY IBO robot, for the remote collaborative games between two people that are remotely situated. We are using that robot as part of a game that two people can play, whereby the role of the robot is a participant in the game and also provide a tactile dimension.
+**Kerstin Dautenhahn:**  We used the robot as a basic mobile platform. It can navigate in the house. It can remind people. It knows about the schedule of people. It can alert them to certain events in the house. This house has been designed as a smart house also. There are more than 40 sensors distributed in this house. The robot is able to perceive when someone rings the doorbell, when the kettle is on, when the kettle goes off, or when someone opens the fridge door. Then we have a robot that we use for a physical assistant. It's a KOBOT 3, designed by [inaudible 20:02] in Germany. It's made of industrial-type components. It has a large manipulator, so it is able to pick up objects. For example, it is able to pick up your woolen hat or your coat and hand it to you in scenarios where maybe people are preparing to go outside. The robot helps them to fetch some clothing. The third robot that we use is the AIBO, the SONY AIBO robot, for the remote collaborative games between two people that are remotely situated. We are using that robot as part of a game that two people can play, whereby the role of the robot is a participant in the game and also provide a tactile dimension.
 **Kheng Lee Koay:**  The robot house helped Lirec in the sense that it provided a realistic environment and naturalistic environment for the user that we can test the system on. It also provided a stable platform.