Kobian

Kobian is a robot created by scientists at Waseda University in Japan. It is capable of displaying expressions of emotion and was developed to realize culture-specific greetings.[1] It can also simulate human speech including the movement of the lips and the oscillations of the head.[1]

Kobian is based on the WABIAN-2R robot and the emotion expression humanoid robot called WE-4RII and is 1,470 mm tall and weighs 62 kilograms.[2] The robot's two eyeballs are outfitted with CMOS cameras.[2] It is a bi-pedal standalone robot with control units such as motor drivers placed in the robotic head, making this particular part larger than the human head.[3] The robotic head for the Kobian-R, the newer and more downsized version of the robot,[4] has 24 degrees of freedom (DoFs) and a blue facial color due to an electro luminescence sheet.[5] The original Kobian robot has a DoF of 48.[2] Two versions of the Kobian-Rs have been built - a Western and a Japanese variant - to develop the system that produces the robot's facial cues.[4]

The Kobian robot has another version called Debian, which has a slightly different facial and body color to provide these robots distinctions when interacting with each other and with other subjects.[6] The color has no cultural significance.

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References

  1. ^ a b Tapus, Adriana; André, Elisabeth; Martin, Jean-Claude; Ferland, François; Ammi, Mehdi (2015-10-27). Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 667. ISBN 9783319255538.
  2. ^ a b c Carbone, Giuseppe; Gomez-Bravo, Fernando (2015). Motion and Operation Planning of Robotic Systems: Background and Practical Approaches. Cham: Springer. p. 418. ISBN 9783319147048.
  3. ^ Padois, Vincent; Bidaud, Philippe; Khatib, Oussama (2013). Romansy 19 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control: Proceedings of the 19th CISM-IFtomm Symposium. Wien: Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 152. ISBN 9783709113783.
  4. ^ a b Ge, Shuzhi Sam; Khatib, Oussama; Cabibihan, John-John; Simmons, Reid; Williams, Mary Anne (2012). Social Robotics: 4th International Conference, ICSR 2012, Chengdu, China, October 29-31, 2012, Proceedings. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 36. ISBN 9783642341021.
  5. ^ Ceccarelli, Marco; Glazunov, Victor A. (2014-06-02). Advances on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators: Proceedings of Romansy 2014 XX CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. Cham: Springer. p. 246. ISBN 9783319070575.
  6. ^ Tapus, Adriana; André, Elisabeth; Martin, Jean-Claude; Ferland, François; Ammi, Mehdi (2015). Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 667. ISBN 9783319255538.


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