Japan, March 12 -- NEC Corporation has developed a first-of-its-kind physical AI that proactively controls robots to help reduce human stress. This technology utilizes a proprietary "world model" from NEC to predict human movement and psychological states, quantitatively estimating a person's level of stress.The technology was developed based on a world model, an AI system that is attracting attention globally for accelerating robot adoption. It anticipates the direction a person will move based on the relative position and posture between a robot and the person, predicting the person's level of stress in real time. This enables robots to be controlled along paths and at speeds that reduce human stress.In collaborative human-robot work envi...