Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents
arXiv cs.AI / 2026/3/24
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要点
- The article reviews research in human-robot interaction and embodied conversational agents on how empathy can be implemented in machines through multimodal social and emotional behaviors.
- It examines what empathic behaviors and models have been implemented by mimicking human and animal cues, including facial expressions, gestures, and speech.
- The review discusses how researchers have explored machine-specific analogies for empathy rather than relying solely on human-like imitation.
- It aims to translate these HRI/ECAs lessons to today’s predominantly language-based agents (e.g., ChatGPT), suggesting a path for adding embodied or empathetic capabilities to LLM-era systems.
