{"id":10543,"date":"2022-03-10T21:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1382360"},"modified":"2022-03-10T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:46:21","slug":"this-tiny-robot-is-supposed-to-stop-you-from-revenge-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10543","title":{"rendered":"This tiny robot is supposed to stop you from revenge texting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It isn\u2019t every day you stumble across <i>the weirdest <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/robot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">robot<\/a> ever. <\/i><span>But if you can guess this little machine\u2019s function just by looking at it, you\u2019ve officially won the internet for today:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3313831.3376775\" src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/a-text-reading-robot-w-1.jpg\" alt=\"A text-reading robot with a weight inside of it\" width=\"747\" height=\"411\" class=\"js-lazy\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/this-tiny-robot-supposed-stop-you-revenge-texting#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F03%2F10%2Fthis-tiny-robot-supposed-stop-you-revenge-texting%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: My, what an interesting shape for a hand-held robot.\" data-title=\"Share My, what an interesting shape for a hand-held robot. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share My, what an interesting shape for a hand-held robot. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>My, what an interesting shape for a hand-held robot.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3313831.3376775\" src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/a-text-reading-robot-w-1.jpg\" alt=\"A text-reading robot with a weight inside of it\" width=\"747\" height=\"411\" class><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span>No, it doesn\u2019t vibrate. But you\u2019re close. The researchers call it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3313831.3376775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">OMOY: A Handheld Robotic Gadget that Shifts its Weight to Express Emotions and Intentions<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apparently<span>, its purpose is to read your texts aloud and calm you down when you get upset. It does this by moving a 250g weight around inside its torso area.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe srcdoc=\"\n\n<style>*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}<\/style>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GCGYb0u4NGM?feature=oembed&amp;autoplay=1&amp;mute=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;theme=light&amp;playsinline=1'><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/GCGYb0u4NGM\/hqdefault.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn-hover.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;opacity:0;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><\/a>&#8221; height=&#8221;240&#8243; width=&#8221;320&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#8221; allowfullscreen frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243;>[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p> <!--resp-video-container--><\/p>\n<p><span>The researchers, a team from the University of Tsukuba, claim the physical sensation of feeling a weight shift inside the robot adds gravitas to what it says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Per their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/frobt.2022.790209\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">recently-published paper<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><span>This paper discusses the use of a handheld social robot deployed as a mediator in text messaging between humans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The robot is equipped with a movable weight inside its body. By controlling the movement of the internal weight during the time when the robot speaks out messages received from a human sender, we hypothesize that the psychological state of a receiver who holds the robot can be affected (for example, he\/she will listen to the messages more seriously).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>So, the big idea here is that the robot reads your text messages aloud and then offers an opinion on how you should feel about the message. All while moving a weight around inside its body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That might not strike you as the be-all-end-all cure for social toxicity, but the researchers claim it reduces anger and revenge texting:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>Results showed that introducing weight shifts together with the robot speech suppressed on average 23% of the user\u2019s anger. However, only 3.5% of the anger was suppressed when the weight shifts were not applied. Additionally, in cases where the robot showed empathy to the user in words with weight shifts, the user\u2019s revenge urge was successfully reduced by 22%. There was almost no effect confirmed when the weight shifts were not applied.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>We could get into the details concerning how the team conducted the study wherein they arrived at these results, but the gist of it is that they asked people how they felt after holding a wiggly robot and pretending to hear angry texts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the study participants, holding the robot while hearing negative texts made them feel less angry.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3313831.3376775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/files\/Articles\/790209\/frobt-09-790209-HTML\/image_m\/frobt-09-790209-g001.jpg\" alt=\"A weird comic about a robot from a research paper\" width=\"754\" height=\"395\" class=\"js-lazy\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/this-tiny-robot-supposed-stop-you-revenge-texting#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F03%2F10%2Fthis-tiny-robot-supposed-stop-you-revenge-texting%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: This is from the research paper.\" data-title=\"Share This is from the research paper. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share This is from the research paper. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>This is from the research paper.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3313831.3376775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/files\/Articles\/790209\/frobt-09-790209-HTML\/image_m\/frobt-09-790209-g001.jpg\" alt=\"A weird comic about a robot from a research paper\" width=\"754\" height=\"395\" class><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span>That actually makes a lot of sense. We\u2019re guessing that, instead of anger, they just felt really weird about taking advice from an undulating, 3D-printed phallus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/this-tiny-robot-supposed-stop-you-revenge-texting\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t every day you stumble across the weirdest robot ever. But if you can guess this little machine\u2019s function just by looking at it, you\u2019ve officially won the internet for today:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}