After browsing the website, I found The Frankie Project and it captured my attention more than anything else. This is a robot created by Maayan Sheleff, an independent art curator.
Frankie tries to answer the question: “what does it mean to be human?” He does so by interviewing individuals about their emotions. I think it is extremely interesting that a robot was created to answer that question as the real humans themselves don’t even know the answer. A philosophical question as such would be extraordinary if a robot could answer. In this interview, Frankie tries to learn about happiness and excitement. The robot asks questions like “what makes you excited” and “when was the last time you were really happy.” I think the robot does this to try and process these types of emotions to get a better understanding of them.
It is also so interesting how Frankie is built: the eyes are formed of cameras, the nose is a cell phone and the mouth is a TV screen.
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