Diego-san, humanoid robot

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Contributors:

Hanson Robotics (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?3462)

Kokoro Company Ltd. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?4896)


Diego-san’s hardware was developed by leading robot manufacturers: the head by Hanson Robotics, and the body by Japan’s Kokoro Co. The project is led by University of California, San Diego full research scientist Javier Movellan.

"Machine Perception Lab Shows Robotic One-Year-Old on Video (https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/machine_perception_lab_shows_robotic_one_year_old_on_video)"

by Doug Ramsey
January 9, 2013

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https://youtu.be/kEDwme2jgRM

Diegoexpressions 4 14 2011

Published on Jan 6, 2013


"DIEGO-SAN", by Hanson for the Machine Perception Lab at the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation. With a face by David Hanson and Hanson Robotics, which mounts on a body by Kokoro, this robotic baby boy was built with funding from the National Science Foundation and serves cognitive A.I. and human-robot interaction research. With high definition cameras in the eyes, Diego San sees people, gestures, expressions, and uses A.I. modeled on human babies, to learn from people, the way that a baby hypothetically would. The facial expressions are important to establish a relationship, and communicate intuitively to people. As much a work of art as technology and science, this represents a step forward in the development of emotionally relevant robotics, building on previous work of David Hanson with the Machine Perception Lab such as the emotionally responsive Einstein shown at TED in 2009

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https://youtu.be/knRyDcnUc4U

Diego Installed

Published on Jan 6, 2013


"DIEGO-SAN", by Hanson for the Machine Perception Lab at the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation. With a face by David Hanson and Hanson Robotics, which mounts on a body by Kokoro, this robotic baby boy was built with funding from the National Science Foundation and serves cognitive A.I. and human-robot interaction research. With high definition cameras in the eyes, Diego San sees people, gestures, expressions, and uses A.I. modeled on human babies, to learn from people, the way that a baby hypothetically would. The facial expressions are important to establish a relationship, and communicate intuitively to people. As much a work of art as technology and science, this represents a step forward in the development of emotionally relevant robotics, building on previous work of David Hanson with the Machine Perception Lab such as the emotionally responsive Einstein shown at TED in 2009

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Article "UCSD's robot baby Diego-san appears on video for the first time (https://newatlas.com/ucsd-robot-baby-diego-san/25681)"

by Jason Falconer
January 8, 2013

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https://youtu.be/Qt47X67qVOQ

Babies time their smiles to make their moms smile in return

Uploaded on Sep 21, 2015


Toddler-like robot allows researchers to confirm their findings
Are babies really smiling on purpose when they interact with their parents, or are their smiles random? In the Sept. 23 issue of PLOS ONE, a team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose—to make the person they interact with smile in return.
In addition, babies reach that goal by using sophisticated timing, much like comedians who time their jokes to maximize audience response. But there is a twist: babies seem to be doing this while smiling as little as possible.
Researchers detail their findings in an innovative study that combines developmental psychology, computer science and robotics—an approach that has never been tried before, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge. The study is part of an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to use robots to better understand human development. It gives developmental psychologists a tool for studying non-verbal children and adults, such as those with autism, researchers said.
To verify their findings, researchers programmed a toddler-like robot to behave like the babies they studied and had the robot interact with undergraduate students. They obtained the same results: the robot got the undergraduates to smile as much as possible, while smiling as little as possible.

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Article "Baby-faced robot used to analyze why infants smile (https://newatlas.com/robot-baby-smiles/39567)"

by Ben Coxworth
September 25, 2015