Bristol Uni are giving robots human facial expressions
Meets Jules:
Developed at Bristol University, UK, in partnership with Hanson Robotics, as an attempt to bridge the Uncanny Valley by giving a robot realistic human facial expressions.
After filming an actor making a variety of expressions indicating, say, “happiness”, an expert animator selected 10 frames showing different variations of the expression and manually set the servos in Jules’s face to match.
This next video shows the process in slightly more detail:
This could also be used for some damn spooky teleconferencing, don’t you think?
creepy
I think that right “sexy”. I can’t wait to have it in my own room. I think that I have given up on the jetpack, all right? Bring Repilee Here, NOW!! I’m lonely.
teleconferencing, or the best halloween costume ever!