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Nursing robot a few years away? By Kim Walker from Silver Group : http://www.silvergroup.asia Nursing robots will be helping in hospitals, working with carers in retirement villages and acting as on-call housemaids to elderly people in their homes and advising on their health care according to Dr Rajiv Khosla and his team of researchers at La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia.Robot Although Japanese researchers have designed robots that can communicate with humans, the machines do not possess the ability to understand human emotions and respond accordingly. This is where the La Trobe team comes in. They are developing what Dr Khosla calls "emotionally intelligent dialogue systems". According to this article in The Age, other potential uses of emotionally intelligent robots would be in education, where online learning is already widely used and helping human resources managers recruit and assess new staff. Passenger robots in cars would monitor driver fatigue and help reduce road fatalities, or web-based intelligent robots would match people's emotional preferences to their choice of holiday destination. Emotionally intelligent "security" robots could also assist in criminal investigations and anti-terrorist detection. By Kim Walker from Silver Group : http://www.silvergroup.asia   By Kim Walker Date 02-05-2009