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   commmentary- I had a short thread on the TV series west world. IF anyone could make something like that a reality..it would be here. As in
   
   
   NTT and Toyota Begin Joint Research Aimed at Promoting
   the Use of Lifestyle Support Robots
   Working towards a society in which humans and robots coexist harmoniously
   
   
   Toyota City, Japan, September 25, 2017—Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have commenced joint research with the aim of promoting the use of partner robots that can help and coexist harmoniously with humans. The research aims to provide support for various situations that occur in daily life utilizing AI technology (corevo®) from the NTT Group and the Human Support Robot (HSR), one of the partner robots currently being developed by Toyota.
   
   1.Background
   Previously, robot development focused primarily on industrial robots in factories and other workplaces fulfilling tasks in place of humans. However, in recent years, as observed in products like robot vacuum cleaners, increased attention has been given to partner robots. Partner robots operate inside homes and can help with such tasks as housework, nursing and child raising, or acting as a partner with which to communicate*.
   
   NTT is engaging in the research and development of corevo®, which incorporates media processing technologies with world-leading levels of accuracy (the company’s voice recognition technologies being a prime example) and interaction technologies such as R-env® so that robots and other personified agents operating on corevo® are able to understand human words and expressions, as well as understand advanced discussions that incorporate hand and body gestures. Through its collaboration with various manufacturers, NTT has promoted initiatives that equip robots with a variety of different characteristics to become more integrated into human life.
   
   
   
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   All I wanted to find was a Japanese carrier who just might have an interest in always on voice...
   
   I found that in NTT DoCoMo, and a WHOLE lot more.
   
   
   I gained insight in that  phrase-this stuff does NOT happen overnight.
   

   jfieb, 10 minutes agoEditDeleteReport

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   jfiebWell-Known Member

   
   

   Wow, look at this...
   so far ahead of his time....!
   
   
   Ryohei Nakatsu, PhD
   Professor, National University of Singapore
   (emeritus)
   Tel:
   E-mail: nakatsu.ryohei@gmail.com
   Homepage: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/staff/bio/nr.html
   Ryohei Nakatsu received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1969, 1971, and 1982, respectively. After joining NTT in 1971, he mainly worked on speech recognition technology. In 1994, he joined Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) as the President of ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories. From the spring of 2002, he has been a Professor at School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University. At the same time, he established a venture company, Nirvana Technology Inc., and became a President of the company. Between 2008 and 2014 he was Professor at the National University of Singapore and director of the Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI) till 2011. [Read about hisvision]
   His research interests include
   
   
   emotion extraction from speech and facial images, emotion recognition, nonverbal communications, and integration of multimodalities in communications.
   
   so far ahead of his time....!
   
   He received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (1996); Telecom System Award from Telecommunication System Foundation (1999 and 2000); the Best Paper Award from Virtual Reality Society of Japan (1999, 2000, and 2001); and the Best Paper Award from Artificial Intelligence Society of Japan (2000). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (IEICE-J).
   
   He was the chair of TC14 on Entertainment Computing as part of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
   He is co-editor in chief of the international journal on ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING with Elsevier.
   He is co-editor in chief of the Handbook for Digital Games and Entertainment Technology with Springer.