The robot revolution may not begin with cold machines dominating factories, but with something much more intimate, because the company Robonova. just showed the body of its bionic robot V2.0, still in an initial stage being guided by a human hand, but making clear the path that this technology wants to follow and that path is not just walking, it is feeling.

While the body is still starting to walk, the real advancement is happening inside the machine, the IVA i model that I mentioned in previous posts was developed and designed not as a tool, but as a personal companion, a robot capable of perceiving emotions, interpreting behaviors and responding in increasingly more natural ways over time.

The answer is to create a real emotional connection between humans and machines, and that starts with a multimodal interaction system, that is, it uses several senses at the same time, the robot can identify where your voice is coming from and turn its head naturally towards you, it can analyze facial expressions through an optional camera and detect subtle changes in your mood and combine all this with conversation history to interpret feelings and suggest more appropriate responses.

It is not just an automatic response, it is adaptation, over time, the system learns patterns, recognizes habits, identifies recurring emotions and begins to personalize each interaction as if it were really creating a relationship, the most curious thing is how this extends to the robot's body, IVA was designed with touch sensors distributed throughout the body, capable of detecting pressure and location, in addition, it maintains a temperature close to that of the human body around 37º, creating a more natural sensation to the touch.

We are still seeing the first steps, literally, a robot that needs help to walk, but at the same time it already demonstrates an increasingly sophisticated ability to understand human emotions, perhaps the most interesting of all this, I do not know the fact that a robot can understand emotions, but how much it needs for the human being for that connection to really work, because understanding feelings is only half of the way, the other half is making the body accompany that.