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Lovotics, the Uncanny Valley and the Grand Challenges
Amit Kumar Pandey*
LAAS CNRS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
- *Corresponding Author:
- Amit Kumar Pandey
LAAS CNRS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Tel: +33 608230665
E-mail: akpandey@laas.fr
Received date: January 05, 2014; Accepted date: February 02, 2014; Published date: February 11, 2014
Citation: Amit Kumar Pandey (2014) Lovotics, the Uncanny Valley and the Grand Challenges. Lovotics 1:105. doi:10.4172/2090-9888.10000105
Copyright: © 2014 Amit Kumar Pandey. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Lovotics, the relatively new direction of robotics research, aims to bring love, affection and friendship between the human and the robot. In this paper, we will discuss the key aspects and raise some basic questions, which must be addresses for designing a 'lovotics robot', which is expected to be capable of stimulating mutual love-like bond between the human and the robot. We must also be careful of not falling in the uncanny valley
