MIT’s Nexi Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 2 of April , 2008 at 1:42 am
This is Nexi, a small humanoid robot designed by MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group. Nexi is an MDS robot, which stands for “Mobile/Dexterous/Social.” And indeed, Nexi is all of these things. She moves around on a pair of dynamically self-balancing wheels (like a Segway) which are part of a uBot5 platform, something I saw in action last year at RoboDevelopment. Her arms, wrists, and hands are fully controllable, allowing her to grip and lift objects of up to 10 pounds, and her face features an array of movable (and quite expressive) features including eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, and mouth. Each eye has a color camera, and an IR system in her forhead lets Nexi make 3D maps of her environment.
So what’s Nexi for? It seems a little nebulous: “the purpose of this platform is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning.” The general idea seems to be that small, capable, social platforms like Nexi would be well suited for working with people in their homes, which is certainly true, but until such time as it’s a commercial possibility, Nexi will be used for research into human-robot interaction.
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Research
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Comment by Simone
Made Wednesday, 2 of April , 2008 at 11:57 am
“So what’s Nexi for? It seems a little nebulous”
I would always like to think, that with the MIT types, the answer would be “because they can”. That’s why I would do it anyway.
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