The robot named Kansei, which means "sensibility" and "emotion" in Japanese can express feelings by way of smiles and frowns. Kansei has speech recognition software, a speaker to vocalize, and motors that contort artificial skin on its face into expressions. By using a 430,000 word database each programmed with pleasantness and unpleasantness and by each word's association to other words, Kansei can determine which emotion to express via its artificial consciousness program when a sentence is heard. Randomness is also incorporated so that the robot develops its own taste for certain things which generate an emotional response also.

Other Kansei articles...

• iSHA Interactive Systems for Humanoid Agent
• Intelligent Machine Lab.