Robots with Empathy, with Dr. Angelica Lim

14/05/2025 49 min Episodio 4

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Dr. Angelica Lim, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University and Director of the SFU Rosie Lab. Can robots have feelings? In this episode, we explore the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and developmental psychology, and consider both the technical challenges and philosophical questions surrounding emotional AI. This conversation offers a glimpse into the future of human-robot interaction and the potential for machines to understand and respond to human emotions.REFERENCES:On Designing User-Friendly Robots: Angelica Lim at TEDxKyoto 2012 Systematic Review of Social Robots for Health and Wellbeing: A Personal Healthcare Journey LensTowards Inclusive HRI: Using Sim2Real to Address Underrepresentation in Emotion Expression Recognition (paper, project website, Github)Contextual Emotion Recognition using Large Vision Language Models (paper, project website)EmoStyle: One-Shot Facial Expression Editing Using Continuous Emotion Parameters (paper, project website)WiAIR website:♾️ https://women-in-ai-research.github.ioFOLLOW US:♾️ LinkedIn♾️ Bluesky♾️ X (Twitter)#AI #SocialRobotics #EmpathyInAI #EthicalAI #HumanCenteredDesign #WiAIR