Aside from making progress in various fields, engineers and scientist are also taking major steps forward in the field of robotics, giving metal gadgets movements and expressions akin to a human being. In the future, people could use robots or gadgets as an obliging hand or personal assistant. In addition, with the creation of such useful robots, engineers would also be able to reduce the dependence on manual labour.
However, at this point in time we are still a little far from achieving this dream, as engineers and scientists are at the preliminary stage of robotics engineering. Until now they had not produced any ideal robot or gadget that can completely overtake the work load from humans. Nonetheless, whatever little these engineers and scientist have achieved thus far is quite encouraging and indicates that they are making progress in the right direction.
Project Pinokio is a part of similar efforts that were made to explore the behaviour and communicative potential in robotic computing. This wonderful project was commenced by three people; Joss Doggett, Shanshan Zhou and Adam Ben-Dror at the Victoria University of Wellington of New Zealand. In this project, these three people have given life to a “Lamp”, as they named it imaginatively, by giving it movements and expressions.
They had made this possible by equipping the “Lamp” with an Arduino and webcam to see and track human faces along with six servos that enables this robot to respond to sounds like gadget, as it can hear them, play hide and seek and most importantly it loves to grab your attention.
Due to these exceptional features Pinokio seems more like a cute baby, adorable pet or a fluffy stuffed with which users can play, as its movements and expressions will make them a fan of this “Lamp”. The description of this project notes that “Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing.”
Source: Cnet
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