Tech Kyoto University team develops laughing robot

"By developing a robot that laughs naturally, we hope to create a robot that can coexist alongside people," Inoue said. The team recorded conversations of 82 people who met for the first time. Focusing on social laughs uttered in response to the laughter of conversation partners, the team fed the audio data into the AI system. The team then created a system that analyzes the frequency of laughter given off by an interacting partner and makes a choice of whether it will laugh along with the person. The system finally decides whether to burst out laughing or let out a social laugh if it chooses to laugh.

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