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Creating robots that can fluidly converse in natural language, and cooperate and sozialize with their human partners is a goal that has always captured human imagination. Furthermore, it is a goal that requires truly interdisciplinary research: engineering, computer science, as well as the cognitive sciences are crucial towards its realization. Challenges and current progress towards this goal will be illustrated through two real-world robot examples: the conversational robot Ripley, and the FaceBots social robots which utilize and publish social information on the FaceBook website. Finally, a quick glimpse towards novel educational and artistic avenues opened by such robots will be provided, through the Interactive Theatre installation of the Ibn Sina robot.
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Mavridis, N. (2010). Robots, Natural Language, Social Networks, and Art. In: Konstantopoulos, S., Perantonis, S., Karkaletsis, V., Spyropoulos, C.D., Vouros, G. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models and Applications. SETN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12842-4_3
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