Building the Emotional Machine
By Angelica Lim, Kyoto University
To create robots with feelings, researchers are programming them to learn and develop emotion the way human children do.
Angelica Lim
Disciplines:
Computer ScienceAngelica Lim builds artificial intelligence for robots to interact with humans in a smart, fun way by combining neuroscience, machine learning, and developmental psychology to model emotion. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University in Japan, where she serves as a researcher in the Okuno Speech Media Processing Lab in the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology. She currently works as a Software Engineering Manager at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, France. Her previous creations include robots that play music in a human ensemble, speak and gesture with expression, recognize emotion in movement, and explore land and sea.
