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‪Multi Scale Turing Patterns‬‏ ‪Multi Scale Turing Patterns‬‏ Waseda-Docomo Face Robot Version 2 - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog. This Waseda-Docomo Face Robot is made by Takanishi who will be featured at Wired Nextfest for this Biped Robot. Video after the jump. “During human communication, a human distinguishes the partnerfs individuals by the facial features such as the silhouette, the position and shape of each part, and gauges the mental state based on the facial expressions. Many researchers have developed the robots that can express their emotions using the facial expressions. However, a robot that can change individual facial aspects has not yet been researched. Therefore, we developed a face robot that expresses various faces by changing a shape of the mask and projecting a face image on the face mask.

A shaft is driven to certain direction by a DC motor via a pully and a slide screw. It moves to other two directions in the same way. Waseda-Docomo face robot WD-2 - Featured on Hacked Gadgets. Gossamer1. Synaptic Stimuli. Color Gun - Interactive Art Project. Wall of Eyes. Hylozoic Soil Beesley Breathing Pore test. Ferrofluid Sculpture. Kinetica Art Fair 2010. The Most Beautiful Machine, 2003. The fine dopamine line between creativity and schizophrenia | Sc. New research shows a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia. High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family.

Creativity is also linked to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Certain psychological traits, such as the ability to make unusual pr bizarre associations are also shared by schizophrenics and healthy, highly creative people. And now the correlation between creativity and mental health has scientific backing. "The study shows that highly creative people who did well on the divergent tests had a lower density of D2 receptors in the thalamus than less creative people," says Dr Ullén.