KOBIAN: Emotional humanoid robot (pics/video)
Surprise
Researchers from Waseda University have teamed up with Kyushu-based robot manufacturer tmsuk to develop a humanoid robot that uses its entire body to express a variety of emotions. (Watch video.)
Named "KOBIAN," the android integrates features of two previously developed robots -- the WABIAN-2 bipedal humanoid and the WE-4RII emotion expression humanoid -- into a bipedal machine that can walk around, perceive its environment, perform physical tasks, and express a range of emotions. The robot also features a new double-jointed neck that helps it achieve more expressive postures.
Delight
KOBIAN can express seven different feelings, including delight, surprise, sadness and dislike. In addition to assuming different poses to match the mood, the emotional humanoid uses motors in its face to move its lips, eyelids and eyebrows into various positions. To express delight, for example, the robot lifts its soft rubbery hands over its head and opens its eyes and mouth wide.
Sadness
To show sadness, the robot slouches over, hangs its head down and holds a hand up to its face in a gesture of grief.
Aversion
According to KOBIAN's developers, the robot's expressiveness makes it better equipped to interact with humans and assist with daily activities. In the future, the robot may seek work in the field of nursing.
[Source: Nikkei Net // Photos, video: Robot Watch]
Very smooth movement. Impressive!
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Damn Robots! They took our jobs! (he says in a South Park redneck voice) But seriously, is it just me, or are robots getting uppity, and forgetting their place as second class citizens. They are trying to steal our women (vibrators, f*ckingmachines.com). They influence our children (Aibo (by Sony), Robosapien, video game systems). They DO take our jobs (Asimo @ Honda, vending machines, assembly line equipment). We must stop them! Next they'll want the vote. Then they will try and use the same water fountains as us. [By the way, I'm not racist or anti-technology, I'm just kidding...] But seriously, with cloud computing, wireless networking, artificial intelligence, robotics, and nanotechnology all increasing in ability and saturation, you have to wonder how far away we are from the police machine in RoboCop, the assassins of Terminator, or the teddy bears, child replacements, and love droids of A.I. ...
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Durk er Jerbs!
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No! The robots have just made mincing effeminate gay men obsolete.
The pain, the pain. No no, get away from me you bubbleheaded boobie of a robot. I shall stomp off to go pout in a cave somewhere. I need to sit down and rest a spell.
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adorei, parabéns aos estudantes, muito bem feito o robô!
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vov vov vov.... superb
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I could imagine the future like the movie of i-robot, bicentennial man and Ai from this robot. It will be our extinction when they start replacing our task, like the terminator salvation.
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The Kobian humanoid robot looks very smart? Is it really so? Hope it is... it's nice to see robots imitating our body and limbs movements, however, it's even nicer to see that they can imitate our gestures and voice. I'd very highly appreciate you to send me some comprehensive material about Kobian, either in paper and on CD or DVD format to my home address at your soonest opportunity. I've studied some aspects about robotics while tak
ing my systems analysis college course but never suspected that hunanoids had reached a
motion and gesture perfectionism of the quality that your vids show.
Please favour with your soonest reply - Carlo
obs: your sendings can be delivered to: Av Villavicencio, 793 - Córdoba X5016CRA - Rep Argentina (if possible, use private mail services and quote name of contact)
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