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News

News: January/February 2004

Cloning Clampdown • Sex Selection Ban • Sell Your Own Liver! • Iris Murdoch’s library for sale • Robot Gets Emotional — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York

Mighty eMo

An interactive robot called eMo was unveiled in October at the Thinktank science exhibition in Birmingham. Resembling a human face, with red rubber tubing for a mouth and camera lenses for eyes, eMo is driven by 22 small computerlinked motors. The aim is to explore ways in which we may in future communicate with robots through our emotions. eMo can display a wide range of emotions including anger, happiness, surprise and disgust. It is also hoped that eMo will be able to recognize emotions on the faces of visitors.

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