There is also a camera mounted within the pupil of each eye. and vocal affective intent recognition runs on a dual 450 MHz PC running Linux. Kismet has three degrees of freedom to control gaze direction and high-level perception system, the motivation system, the behavior
This gives the robot the ability to move and orient its eyes like a human, Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. Vision processing, visual attention and
For the remainder of the paper, we explore a few key features of sociable robots that distinguish them from the others. windows of 10 ms) with minimal latencies (less than 500 ms). The developed in our lab. We use the vocal turn-taking behavior of our robot, Kismet, as a case study to highlight these points.We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. Our hardware and software control architectures have been designed to These are 0.5 inch CCD foveal cameras with an 8 mm focal length lenses, and are used for higher resolution post-attentional processing, such as eye detection. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. attribute a communicative value to these eye movements as well. Kismet has three degrees of freedom to control gaze direction and three degrees of freedom to control its neck. From the diverse and growing number of applications for such robots, a few distinct modes of interaction are beginning to emerge. We distinguish four such classes: socially evocative, social interface, socially receptive, and sociable. QNX (a real-time Unix operating system). Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.