A Nice Gesture by Jeroen Arendsen

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Posted on January 12th, 2009 under Gesture Recognition, YouTube Faves. Tags: entertainment, games, sixense, truemotion, videogames. Comments: None

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Posted on January 9th, 2009 under YouTube Faves. Tags: control, def, Electro, entertainment, hi, Home, ipod, Nikko, R2-D2, radio, star, Wars. Enter your password to view comments

How is this for an entertaining robot. It plays the violin. Why it needs a humanoid shape to do this is beyond me though.

Posted on November 14th, 2008 under Robots, Uncategorized. Tags: entertainment, Social Robotics. Comments: None

Here is a really nice robot with eyes that actually allow you to see where he is looking! Quite good, I definitely would put that sort of thing in a robot.
Quite a few people find this robot scary, by the way. Would it be the same as with how a robot looks: appreciation rises if [...]

Posted on November 14th, 2008 under Robots, Uncategorized. Tags: entertainment, Social Robotics. Comments: None

This is the good stuff. Do you see how a bit of interaction (even if it is scripted) creates a magical impression? How difficult can it be to program stuff like this if you know what you want?

Posted on November 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Tags: entertainment, Social Robotics. Comments: None

Here is a golden oldie from Sony, QRIO.

Unfortunately they stopped work on QRIO in 2006.

Posted on November 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Tags: Asimo, entertainment, Social Robotics. Comments: None

The most interesting developments with Asimo, as far as I am concerned, were the gesture recognition routines. Sadly, there was none of that in his latest appearance at Robo Japan 2008. The camera is used ‘only’ to detect humans, receive objects from them or hand them over. That is an interesting trick too.

ASIMO uses eye [...]

Posted on November 13th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Tags: entertainment, Robots. Comments: None

Day one of the ROBO-ONE 14 competition in Yokohama featured champion OmniZero.7 doing his usual outstanding job of surprising and delighting both the judges and the crowds. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com

ROBO ONE is a competition between robots with a jury. Kind of a beauty pageant, I guess.

Posted on November 13th, 2008 under Robots, Uncategorized. Tags: entertainment, Robots. Comments: None