Zee Media Bureau
London: Here is some good news for al those who love robots. Will Jackson and his colleagues at Engineered Arts in Penryn, UK have developed a talking robot which can guess your mood by your gestures.
Named as SociBot-Mini, the robot uses a depth-sensing camera to capture and recognise gestures and can even gauge one's mood from their grimaces and smiles. It can guess their age one's age as well.
It can also use a web-cam to capture facial expressions.
The robot comes with chatbot software based on Rosette, which provides it a bit of understanding of speech.
SociBot-Mini's transparent plastic face also has contours for a nose, mouth and eyes, and is backlit with a digital projector.
(With Agency inputs)
First Published: Friday, March 28, 2014, 19:18
