This Blog is maintained by the Robot Perception and Learning lab at CSIE, NTU, Taiwan. Our scientific interests are driven by the desire to build intelligent robots and computers, which are capable of servicing people more efficiently than equivalent manned systems in a wide variety of dynamic and unstructured environments.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
New Robots May Soon Have Your Face and Your Expressions
WD-2, a "face robot" developed by researchers from Waseda University in Tokyo, not only makes facial expressions, but changes its facial expressions with nearly the minute detail of a human face. In the future, personal robots may serve a multitude of purposes in work and entertainment with humans, and therefore must be able to communicate in a human-like manner. The researchers say that the mask can be modified to "copy" a human face, even displaying a person's hair style and skin color when a photo of their face is projected onto the 3D mask.
the full article and video
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