Asimo Gestures
Asimo was in the news again (in Manilla), and I thought an update would be nice.
“howwa YOU dowin?” (can Asimo look a girl up and down?)
The little guy is currently equipped with some gesture recognition (he can wave back) and other computer vision capabilities. He has always had a bunch of synthesized gesture routines in his repertoire. When they made him speak they made him do co-speech gestures. I guess otherwise there would be nothing to watch, since he has no lips to move nor eyebrows to raise.
Asimo is making a name for himself on stages everywhere. Rumour even has it he is getting pretentious and is plotting a coup against Mickey Mouse.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
[...] be noticed, and leaving spectators free to see and think what they want. Let us link this to Robot Asimo, who applies gesture technology for social functioning: if you wave at him, he waves back (see [...]