A handful of teams around the world are building waterproof collars and sensors for pets that are modeled on human wearable computers, but are activated by tugs or bites or even taps of the nose.The tools stand to have real life-saving value —The robot of the future will look like a software-driven thermostat for instance, if a service dogs identifies that its master is having a seizure, it can trigger an alarm on its collar. But these electronics could also serve as gentle reminder that it's time for dinner or a walk. Those researchers told NBC News earlier this year that the dogs were quick to learn and enjoyed the ability to communicate with their human masters.
Maybe the key to keeping our best friends is building the dog translator collar from "Up" ... before the robots do.In the centuries-old best friendship between dogkind and humankind, humans are apparently easily replaced with robots. Seemingly loyal canines are totally willing to interact with cold, hard machines, according to a new study in Animal Cognition, gazing lovingly at their robot faces and finding hidden foodstuffs that the robot pointed to. Robots, stop taking things away from us!
The study investigated whether or not dogs would be willing to interact with an unfamiliar robot. It found that the dogs would interact with a cyborg--if the robot seemed like a social being, as evidence by its ability to talk to the dog and its owner. The PeopleBot telepresence robot used in the study looks a lot like "piece of gym equipment with a white gloved hand attached to it," as the study's press release notes. It would be hard for a dog to actually mistake it for a human being.For the "social" condition, the robot, which has a movable arm and a touchscreen for a face, was programmed with pre-recorded words and sentences spoken by a human voice.
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