The event will take place as part of the sixth conference on computational traffic control of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University. Dr. Amir Karniel, a faculty member in the department, says that the competition is designed to test whether it is possible to distinguish between a robot's handshake and that of a person based on the amount of force invested in the handshake
This Wednesday there will be a human-robot handshake competition at Ben Gurion University. This is within the framework of the sixth conference on computational traffic control of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ben Gurion University. The organizer of the competition, Dr. Amir Karniel, a faculty member of the department, says that this is a study about a Turing-like test for motor intelligence.
In the Turing test, a computer and a person are asked questions, and if they cannot be distinguished based on the answers, the computer is said to be intelligent. In recent years it has become clear that human intelligence is not one-dimensional and in fact the original test only examines verbal skills and does not examine movement skills which are much more complex.
"In this study," says Dr. Karniel, "we will look at a handshake and examine the hypothesis that a handshake allows you to characterize the person standing in front of you and to identify whether he is a person or a machine, assuming that the machine is not endowed with motor intelligence. The purpose of the research is to build an index for learning motor intelligence in handshake systems, thus enabling a comparison between robotic control systems. Building the index and understanding the characteristics of the handshake may also allow the development of tools for the early diagnosis of motor diseases in humans."
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (ISF).
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What if the robot crushes my hand? With a robotic handshake, he won't like her.