･Amio
AIM Lab’s earlier robots Ami and Amiet, which were created in 2001 and 2002 as a test-bed for human-robot interaction, eventually led to the creation of a true bipedal humanoid called Amio in 2006. Amio has 36 DOFs, stands 150cm tall (just shy of 5 feet), and weighs 45kg (99 lbs). His walking speed is fairly slow at only 1km/h. He has 2 CCD cameras for vision, 8 inclination sensors throughout his body, and 4 FSRs (force sensing resistors) per foot to locate the ZMP (zero moment point).
Like his predecessors, Amio’s speech and vision recognition software allow him to guess a person’s emotional state, but his fully anthropomorphic shape is more ideal for human-robot interactions. The strength of the software has been proven in several experiments, where the robots chose an appropriate conversation topic and behaved appropriately in response to human emotions. They could ask you what you are angry about and then make a joke to console you or make you laugh.
The researchers at KAIST’s AIM lab intend to further develop these technologies in order to improve human-robot interactions in the future. Besides expanding the robots’ emotional memory, they will also be upgraded to include a wider range of conversational topics, which will be stored on a network.
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