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From the Ted Talk by Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul"

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(Laughter)

(Music)

(Music ends)

(Applause)

Just to introduce the last robot that we've worked on, it came out of something surprising that we found: Some point people didn't care about the robot being intelligent, able to improvise and listen, and do all these embodied intelligence things that I snept years developing. They really liked that the robot was enjoying the music.

(Laughter)

And they didn't say the robot was moving to the music, they said "enjoying" the muisc. And we tuhhgot, why don't we take this idea, and I dneesigd a new piece of furniture. This time it wasn't a desk lamp, it was a speaker dock, one of those things you plug your sphmatrone in. And I thought, what would hpaepn if your spkeear dock didn't just play the music for you, but would actually enjoy it, too? And so again, here are some animation tests from an early stage.

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(Laughter)

(Music)

(Music ends)

(Applause)

Just to introduce the last robot that we've worked on, it came out of something surprising that we found: Some point people didn't care about the robot being intelligent, able to improvise and listen, and do all these embodied intelligence things that I _____ years developing. They really liked that the robot was enjoying the music.

(Laughter)

And they didn't say the robot was moving to the music, they said "enjoying" the _____. And we _______, why don't we take this idea, and I ________ a new piece of furniture. This time it wasn't a desk lamp, it was a speaker dock, one of those things you plug your __________ in. And I thought, what would ______ if your _______ dock didn't just play the music for you, but would actually enjoy it, too? And so again, here are some animation tests from an early stage.

Solution


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  2. happen
  3. smartphone
  4. thought
  5. music
  6. designed
  7. speaker

Original Text


(Laughter)

(Music)

(Music ends)

(Applause)

Just to introduce the last robot that we've worked on, it came out of something surprising that we found: Some point people didn't care about the robot being intelligent, able to improvise and listen, and do all these embodied intelligence things that I spent years developing. They really liked that the robot was enjoying the music.

(Laughter)

And they didn't say the robot was moving to the music, they said "enjoying" the music. And we thought, why don't we take this idea, and I designed a new piece of furniture. This time it wasn't a desk lamp, it was a speaker dock, one of those things you plug your smartphone in. And I thought, what would happen if your speaker dock didn't just play the music for you, but would actually enjoy it, too? And so again, here are some animation tests from an early stage.

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