Official MDS Robot Video - First Test of Expressive Ability

This video shows an initial test of the MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) Robot designed
and built in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group, UMASS Amherst's Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics. It illustrates the robot's expressive range of movement using scripted animations and pre-recorded speech.

For more information see http://robotic.media.mit.edu

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Science & Technology

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• robot
• mds
• nexi
• nixi
• nixy
• media
• lab
• laboratory
• robotics
• technology
• mit

[m0nsterface]

I dunno why people are so freaked out by this - it's pretty adorable IMO.

[bubbagumpfr]

glados's childhood

[NCC1701zulu]

You needed a grant for something i can buy at Target?

[iPic14]

diabolical ;|

[FullJayson]

somebody should call Will smith i see where this is going :SSS

[crusherproductions]

Can we fuck it?

[AliHassan92496]

I have seen way to many terminator movies to see where this is going

[ANETVIRIDIANA]

is not just doing playback 0:56

[MissingCamcorder]

Its bored face was amusing.

[mbitj]

One day I'm going to be in a sticky situation and this things gonna burst through the door guns a blazin'. She'll look at me, tilt her head cutely to the left and say "come with me if you want to live."

[UnderwhelmingPlywood]

Is this real?

[stormwolf3]

does anyone else see irobot when they look at this thing?