Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

The problem – part 2

The robot needs to interact with my grandchildren. Why is this here? As I told you in Chapter 1, the grandchildren were introduced to some of my other robots, and one of the grandkids, William, always tries to talk to the robots. I have two grandchildren who are on the autistic spectrum, so this is not an idle desire – I've read research, such as Robots for Autism (https://robots4autism.com/) that state that robots can be helpful. While I’m not trying to do therapy, I’d like my robot to interact with my grandchildren verbally. I also have one specific request – the robot must be able to tell and respond to knock-knock jokes, a favorite of William.

So, here is a diagram of this use case:

So let’s go through our same exercise ...