It's one HAL of a navigator
By Nick Heath
Published: 11 November 2009 16:47 GMT
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In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed.
Engineers at the university are developing a robotic dashboard assistant that can predict where a driver wants to go, plot the route and offer turn-by-turn directions.
Aida - the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent - will also bring a human touch to the sat-nav thanks to its virtual face, which will be able to express a range of emotions.
The project to develop Aida is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab.
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