{"id":2006,"date":"2011-07-26T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:15","slug":"2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Emotions on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Robot Coaxes Expressiveness Out of Weird Design<br \/>\nFrom: <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/artificial-intelligence\/strange-polish-robot-\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 14, 2011<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re always impressed by how much expressiveness and emotion can be squeezed out of even the simplest robot faces if they&#8217;re cleverly done, and Emys (for &#8220;emotive head system&#8221;), a robot from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland, is a fantastic example. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I didn&#8217;t entirely get all that either, but that &#8220;surprise&#8221; face is priceless. For a less, um, dramatic run-through of all of the expressions that Emys can make, there&#8217;s another video here.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMnY7IEkdJI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Emys is part of the LIREC Project, which is a European research project that&#8217;s &#8220;exploring how to design digital and interactive companions who can develop and read emotions and act cross-platform.&#8221; In short, they&#8217;re trying to figure out how to make robots a little more fun to hang out with, by giving them some tools to tell how you&#8217;re feeling, and giving you an expressive face (of sorts) to look at.<\/p>\n<p>This disembodied head also comes with a fancy wheeled Segway-style body called FLASH, and there&#8217;s even an arm. Just one arm, yeah, but that&#8217;s enough to shake hands and give a thumbs-up, and who could want anything more than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Robot Coaxes Expressiveness Out of Weird Design From: IEEE Spectrum July 14, 2011 We&#8217;re always impressed by how much expressiveness and emotion can be squeezed out of even the simplest robot faces if they&#8217;re cleverly done, and Emys (for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/2006\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ieee","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}