This Japanese Comedy Robot Is Terrifying

Here’s video of a robot developed in Japan to make people laugh. It was created by a team of researchers at Japan’s Waseda University led by Professor Atsuo Takanishi. The team wrote sketches for the robot to perform and broke down humor into “funny behavior (such as exaggeration, dirty jokes, parody, sympathetic stories and laughter), funny context (a running gag or doing something unexpected) and funny character (self-flattery, self-deprecation and imitation).” Results found that having the robot imitate a familiar human comedian made 80% of the audience laugh, but they were probably just laughing because they were watching a robot programmed to do comedy.

(via CNET)

This Japanese Comedy Robot Is Terrifying