{"id":890,"date":"2024-06-12T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/hyper-realistic-humanoid-robots-could-be-used-in-psychotherapy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:56","slug":"hyper-realistic-humanoid-robots-could-be-used-in-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/hyper-realistic-humanoid-robots-could-be-used-in-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-realistic humanoid robots could be used in psychotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that could be used in psychotherapy and counselling.<\/p>\n<p>In the factory in <strong>China\u2019s<\/strong> northeastern coastal city of Dalian, neck-length silicone masks lie alongside silicone arms and feet, while disembodied heads sit on display and humanoid robots in various stages of construction stand nearby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Drawings of robot designs adorn a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Humanoid robots are the most complex type of robot to build and these ones use <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong> to learn how to recognise human behaviour and mimic it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many basic models and algorithms that are commonly open source, which everyone uses,\u201d says Ex-Robot chief executive Li Boyang.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we concentrate more on how to enable the AI to recognise and express expressions and emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an Ex-Robots worker moves her head, smiles and sticks out her tongue, a humanoid robot mimics her movement thanks to tiny motors installed in several spaces in its head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe model we\u2019re making is multi-modal and capable of emotional expression. It can perceive the surrounding environment and produce appropriate facial feedback,\u201d says Li.<\/p>\n<p>It takes from two weeks to a month to produce a humanoid robot, with prices ranging from 1.5 million yuan (\u00a3162,000) to 2 million yuan.<\/p>\n<p>Li believes humanoid robots will be integrated into healthcare and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychological counselling and health are certainly future application scenarios. We are currently conducting research such as auxiliary treatment and preliminary screening for emotional and psychological disorders,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, I believe that emotional interaction has broader applications in service fields, such as those aimed at children.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that could be used in psychotherapy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}