Humanoid Exo-Skeleton Learns Non-Verbal Communication
Writing by Conner Flynn on Friday, 26 of October , 2007 at 12:25 am
No, this is not a prop from the new Terminator movie. It comes from researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. Standing at 5 feet tall, the 187-pound robot uses 3D vision to recognize gestures like pointing and bowing. Then it determines their meaning and repeats the gestures when appropriate. They expect to apply the technology to future caregiver robots, who will look after the elderly.
I can’t think of anything that would scare our elderly more than the picture above. As far as learning gestures, well, a certain percentage of the elderly are just plain crazy. This bot is going to be acting strange… I can envision many a finger flipped at this thing, while it gives as good as it gets.
Category: Research
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