Comm & emotions (robot)
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La télé-robotique prend un nouvel essor ! Voilà un projet intéressant développé par le Personal Robotics Group du MIT , décuplant l’interaction à distance avec un avatar robotique qui se trouverait chez l’interlocuteur. Ainsi le MeBot offre en plus de la vidéo-conférence une interface robotique commandée à distance que l’on manipule assez aisément. Bref, cela promet un jolie avenir à la communication à distance, et qui sait on arrivera peut être faute de téléportation à avoir un avatar à l’autre bout de la planète ! Finalement on se rapprocherait petit à petit des robots /avatars du film Surrogates.
La télé-robotique prend un nouvel essor ! | Le Journal du Geek
Telenoid R1: Telepresence Just Got A Whole Lot Creepier
Apparently sick and tired of always being told their robots look creepy, Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro and the researchers at ATR have designed the freakiest robot ever to help put the others in perspective. Telenoid R1, a telepresence android fit for a circus freak show, was co-developed by ATR with Eager Co. Ltd., which had already created a telepresence software called AvatarNT. As with their recent baby robots, Vstone provided the actuators. In all the robot measures 80cm (31″), weighs 5kg (11 lbs), and is able to move its eyes, open its mouth, tilt its head both horizontally and vertically, and wriggle its stubby limbs (9 actuators).
TED Roundup: Heather Knight and Cynthia Breazeal Talk Robot Comedy and Interactivity - IEEE Spectrum
There have been a couple interesting TED Talks on robots recently featuring robots (and their human researchers). This first talk is from Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot Labs , who programmed a Nao to not just tell jokes, but actually pay attention to whether the audience was laughing and then adapt its comedy routine on the fly: The other talk is by Cynthia Breazeal , from MIT's Personal Robotics Group . She talks about her past research and where she sees the future of interactive robots.