Social RoboticsDisney Research shows an expressive bipedal character robot at IROS
A small, mostly 3D-printed robot uses reinforcement learning to perform animator-designed movements with personality.
A Disney Research team in Zurich led by Moritz Bächer unveiled a child-sized two-legged robot during a keynote at IROS 2023 in Detroit. Working with an animator, the engineers built a training pipeline that lets the robot keep an expressive, character-like style of motion while coping with real-world variation. The robot went from concept to demonstration in under a year using modular hardware and off-the-shelf actuators. The team argued the approach could help robots working near people express emotion and intent, a central concern in human-robot interaction.
Source: IEEE Spectrum
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