Affetto, pneumatically-actuated humanoid robot as a 20-month-old child, Asada Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan

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Facial motion test of AFFETTO

Uploaded on Feb 6, 2011

Facial motion test of Affetto, which is an child robot that is currently under development in emergent robotics laboratory at Osaka university for simulating infant cognitive development. Its face is created realistically so as to be treated as a human being by human caregivers, not as a robot.

 

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Prototype Upper Body for a Child Robot "Affetto"

Published on Jul 24, 2012

Affetto moves flexibly thanks to 22 pneumatic actuators in its body (3 for neck, 7 for each arm, 1 for chest, and 4 for waist). Visit https://youtu.be/nHWimp9uvfo to see how its realistic face moves.

 

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Affetto - upper body mechanism test

Published on Jun 23, 2014

 

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Affetto joint flexibility

Published on Mar 23, 2015

 

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Child Android robot "Affetto" - joint mechanism ver.1

Published on Aug 6, 2016

This upper body mechanism was developed in 2011 at emergent robotics laboratory in Osaka University

 

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Various expressions of a child android Affetto

Published on Nov 15, 2018

Examples of several facial expressions such as smiling, surprising, curious, funny faces, are generated randomly.

 

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Child Android Affetto (2011 model) Upper body assembly

May 10, 2020

 

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Child-type android "Affetto" Ver.3 autonomous facial expression of calm, happy and curious

Mar 22, 2022

This is the demonstration of autonomous facial expressions produced by the third version of Affetto. Affetto is the child-type android robot, which has been developed in the research team led by Hisashi Ishihara since 2010 at Osaka University.