{"id":228656,"date":"2026-06-09T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/can-robots-read-the-room\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:15:44","slug":"can-robots-read-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/can-robots-read-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Can robots read the room?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2026\/06\/can-robots-read-room\">Can robots read the room?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2026\/06\/can-robots-read-room\">https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2026\/06\/can-robots-read-room<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 09:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.cornell.edu\">news.cornell.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cornell researchers explore leveraging AI to imbue robots with social intelligence, particularly the ability to decipher human social cues and interact within society.<\/li>\n<li>The study assessed vision language models (VLMs) in predicting scenario outcomes from short videos, comparing their performance to humans. The best models outperformed average humans at general predictions but struggled at predictions based solely on facial expressions.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers used state-of-the-art VLMs, including closed-source models like GPT-4o and open-source models like DeepSeek, finding that while open-source models predicted outcomes with 70% accuracy, their performance in reading facial cues was much worse, at around 45-54% accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Despite their superior general predictive ability, the models&#8217; failure at interpreting facial expressions highlights a significant gap in their anticipatory social intelligence \u2013 a crucial ability for harmonious human-robot interaction.<\/li>\n<li>The research emphasizes the necessity of developing robots alongside human interactions, indicating that deploying imperfect robots can provide valuable insights for adaptive improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers aim to investigate further into why the models fail at interpreting social cues and seek to enhance their performance, aspiring to inspire broader research into AI applications for robot social intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can robots read the room? https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2026\/06\/can-robots-read-room Publish Date: 2026-06-09 09:46:00 Source Domain: news.cornell.edu Cornell researchers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_thumbnail_lg\/public\/2026-06\/robot_graphic.png?itok=NX7BXfGn","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228658,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228656\/revisions\/228658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}