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Expressive Humanoid Robot Head: FloBi Robot can show Feelings

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FloBi Robot is a humanoid Robot Head that can show Feelings. Unlike a lot of robots out there that have “human-like” features, where testing for one particular reason or another is paramount to the robot’s very existence, that’s not necessarily the case with FloBi. Slightly larger than an adult human head, FloBi’s modular design allows the researchers to change its perceived gender by snapping together pieces with clips and magnets.

FloBi head and neck have total of 18 degrees of freedom, including a proprietary an attractive actuator for moving its lips which improves on comparable designs by concealing the anchor points of actuation. To express usual selection of emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and fear, Flobi, its eyebrows, eyelids, eyes, lips, and neck can all move independently. FloBi even comes with a camera in each eye, some microphones, a gyro sensor and LEDs in its cheeks that help simulate a blush response. It will be used to study natural human-robot interaction and the effects of its external appearance.

Discovering even the smallest amount movement of an eyebrow, for example, comes so naturally to people that even Hollywood’s best visual effects studios struggle to recreate them in computer animations. Robots with extremely abstract features like the SONY QRIO, for example, could never be mistaken for a reanimated corpse, and they lower the observer’s expectations to more realistic levels. There have been a number of robotic heads developed over the years in an attempt to replicate human interaction and emotional expression. Flobi described by Ingo Lutkebohle and colleagues in a paper for the ICRA 2010 conference.

Source : B4tea.com



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