Dreamer Meka-HCRL Sociable Head

Meka and the HCR Laboratory at UT Austin present the Dreamer sociable humanoid head. The goals of the head is to elicit a sense of trust and sociability
to an otherwise pure mechatronic device. Thus the head constitutes an organic link to its biological counterpart, creating feelings of quasi-affinity in response to gestures and synthetic emotions. The concept of the head was designed by Meka Robotics, Luis Sentis, and Roland Philippsen. It has references to female Anime and Comic characters. Another objective of the head is to display a sense of focus (on the task at hand) without being intimidating. Thus it possesses a thick forefront and at the same time a kind expression on the eyes and eyelashes. All in all, Meka and the HCRL have attempted to deliver a medium of organic expressions with great aesthetic beauty and superb mechatronic performance.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dreamer
• Meka
• UTAustin
• sociable
• head
• sm

[HCRLaboratory]

Hi therobotgroup(dot)org. Congratulations for your projects. I'll pass the information to the rest of the group.

[dragonMagico1]

so now you just need to attach a machine gun to its arm

[scharkalvin]

I was staring at the face of that robot and realized that it looked a little familiar.  Then it hit me, put the ears where they belong on a human, and give it black hair with two pointed 'spikes' at 1 and 4 o'clock, and you'd have the spitting image of Astro Boy.

[staffanholmqvist]

Crazy ears!

[askjerry]

If you are in the Austin area, we would love to have you come to a robot meeting or if you are up to it, have us come to your lab. YouTube blocks a URL if entered properly... but this should get you there: therobotgroup(dot)org

[MoronicJoker]

The lids should close below the center of the eyeballs. When the robot is opening its eyes and raising the head simultaneous there is a moment of irritation, where it looks like the head is up side down.

[kris860911SA]

Ha. Thats fantastic :)

It doesn't do much. But that is a much better option than it stabbing humans in the face for fun.

[xXZachiiXx]

Pretty kewl [:

[jnickence]

The eyes are very expressionistic. I like the glowing ears as well!

[Haktsu]

That thing, without its face, reminds me of the robot from short circuit.