Hey does anyone remember the anthropomorphic robot head called Kismet a few years back? Well Kismet was an experiment in robot, computer and software combinations to explore human and robot interaction. Kismet was controlled by a network of 15 computers and was mechanical head and neck on a platform. It was designed and programmed in such a fashion to interact on a basic emotional and physical level with humans. For it's time it was eerie to see this robot head for all the world act and interact very much like a human infant. Well things have progressed some on the other side of the big puddle. I just saw a video for the Waseda Eye No.4 Refined II robot. This unit is one of the most interactive robots I have seen in quite a while. No this is not a furby type of fake interaction with set responses. Watch the video and see! Click the title to go to the video location.
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