Created at the IDC Media Innovation lab, Kip1 is a robotic conversation companion that listens to human conversation, if the conversation tones are pleasant and calm Kip1 is becoming more and more confident and interested, if the conversation tones are aggressive Kip1 becomes scared and retracts.
Kip1 is part of a new project at the Media Innovation Lab called Empathic Objects.
Created by Guy Hoffman, Oren Zuckerman, Shlomi Azoulay, Ofri Omer, Oran Peretz and Almog Ben David.