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Angelica Lim is an American-Canadian AI roboticist. She first started researching robots in 2008. Lim is currently an assistant professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is also the head and founder of the Simon Fraser University Rosie Lab,which specializes in AI software development. Much of her work involves exploring the emotional capabilities of AI machines,and how AI interacts with music. Lim is the first to provide a scientifically published definition and implementation for robot feelings.
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