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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