Robotic Einstein Head Has Empathy, Creepy Smile
The "empathetic robot," as it was called, was able to key in on emotional nuances displayed by the person gazing at it and then make the same face back. The head being showcased at TED was the fourth iteration by roboticist David Hanson, who told the hundreds in attendance that it can "understand feeling and mimic." The revived Einstein found his personality just two weeks earlier when it was "married to software from the Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California, San Diego."
