SARA Project (Carnegie Mellon University)
“Speaking with SARA certainly felt less jarring than talking to a regular chatbot. The system studies the words a person says during a conversation as well as the tone of his or her voice, also using several cameras to study the speaker’s facial expressions and head movements.”
– MIT Technology Review
- MIT Technology Review, Chatbots with Social Skills Will Convince You to Buy Something
- Google Blog (Google for Education), At Carnegie Mellon University, machine learning gets social
- BBC Business Daily, Talking to Robots
- Popular Science, S.A.R.A. Seeks To Give Artificial Intelligence People Skills
- Science Friday, Are Digital Assistants Smart Enough to Do Their Jobs?
- CNET, The Advent of Virtual Humans
- CNBC, Best of World Economic Forum in Tianjin
- Foreign Policy, “Is AI Sexist?“
- CNBC Africa, “Meet SARA, the socially-aware robot“
- Al Arabiya, “Meet Sara…the robot that knows the ins and outs of Davos“
- USA TODAY, “This robot assistant can understand facial expressions“
- CNBC, “On the ground at the Summer Davos“
- CNET, “The advent of virtual humans“
- WASHINGTON POST, The big contradiction in how the world’s most powerful people think about its future
- BLOOMBERG QUINT, SARA: A socially aware robotic assistant that reads your mood
- PressTV, Socially Aware Robot Assistant Displayed at WEF
- INDIA TIMES, Now, a socially-aware robotic assistant that gets your mood!
- THE TRIBUNE, A robotic assistant that gets your mood!
- DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS (DNA), Fourth industrial revolution on full display at the WEF
- FINANCIAL TIMES, Tech leaders at Davos fret over effect of AI on jobs
- JLL (Sushell Koul), From macro to machines
- CMSWIRE, Step Up Your Personalization Game with AI
- TECH FACTS LIVE, Socially Aware Robotic Assistant Introduced at World Economic Forum
- ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION NEWS, Job-stealing robots a growing concern for world leaders
- PTS NEWS NETWORK, Socially-Aware robot frees humans from repetitive work
- DIGITAL MARKETING BUREAU, Sara: The Socially Aware Robot Assistant
- HUMAN INSIDE, S.A.R.A., the sensitive robot who improves people’s performance
- D!GITALIST MAGAZINE, Empathy: The Killer App for Artificial Intelligence
- Zee News, Here’s a socially-aware robotic assistant that gets your mood!
- The Indian Express, Now, a socially-aware robotic assistant (SARA) that gets your mood
- DE TIJD, https://twitter.com/Dorien_Luyckx/status/821731750950871040
- DW – Business, https://twitter.com/dw_business/status/821671699695435776
- CCTV (China Central Television)
- Tartan (Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper) The Frontier Conference exhibits featured new technology
- Radio Sputnik, These are robots that intend to make society stronger by focusing on social bond
- Atelier.net, chatbots of growing human
- Radio Canada, Here are 4 robots at your service
- Point Park Globe, President Obama, White House host science, technology conference at CMU
SCHEMA Project (Waseda University)
- 「料理!洗濯!笑いまで!人と暮らす未来のロボット」, サイエンスZERO, 2012年4月22日 放送, NLK
- 「世界をリードするWASEDAのロボット研究」,Asahi Shimbun(朝日新聞) 2013年10月26日朝刊
- 「人とロボットの幸せな未来へ」,Yomiuri Shimbun(読売新聞) 2014年 新年号
- 「会話ロボットシェ―マ,「場を読める」目線・しぐさ」,Yomiuri Shimbun(読売新聞) 2012年 4月30日朝刊