JAMES, the robot bartender, system evaluation April / May 2012

The goal of the JAMES project -- Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems -- is to develop an artificial embodied agent that supports socially appropriate, multi-party, multimodal interaction. In JAMES, we focus on the qualitative aspects of task achievement in social situations, rather than simply the physical aspects of traditional robotics tasks. In particular, we will endow a robot with the ability to recognize, understand, and generate appropriate multimodal social signals in real-world, dynamic, taskoriented contexts.

The goal of this evaluation was to test the robot's capabilities to interact with multiple humans in several conditions. The robot should not only fulfill its task, but also interact with the humans in a socially appropriate way.

The following persons programmed the robot:
Mary Ellen Foster
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh
Social state management, integration

Andre Gaschler
http://www.fortiss.org/en/contact/peo...
fortiss GmbH Munich
Robot arm movements

Manuel Giuliani
http://www.manuelgiuliani.de/
fortiss GmbH Munich
Robot head movements

Amy Isard
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amyi/
University of Edinburgh
Speech input processing, language generation

Maria Pateraki
http://www.mpateraki.org/
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Vision processing

Ron Petrick
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rpetrick/
University of Edinburgh
Planning

The robot programs are based on findings from human-human interaction studies by:
Kerstin Huth, Jan de Ruiter
http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_pub...
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/pers...
Universität Bielefeld

If you are interested in our work, visit the JAMES website at http://www.james-project.eu . You can also directly contact the uploader of this video, Manuel Giuliani, at giuliani (at) fortiss.org .

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Superbrony007]

Why does the robot have such Beafy arms?!

[Kay Gee]

Vito Cornelius: I know she's made to be strong, but she's also so fragile, so human. Know what I mean?

[bldn10]

fail

[2007TypeR]

You know a vending machine with buttons would be about 10 times as fast and probably 100times as cheap.