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Wednesday June 20, 2007 2:05 pm
Leonardo Attempts to Socialize
While checking out Guy Hoffman’s AUD Lamp,we found another bot that is part of the Robotic Life Group at MIT. Leonardo was obviously inspired by the movie Gremlins but named after Da Vinci. Their creators refer to him as “the Stradivarius of expressive robots” by attempting to make him a combination of an animatronic figure with the intelligence of a robot. This includes facial feature tracking and stereo depth estimation. Instead of teaching the robot outright, the team uses learning by tutelage, imitation, and social referencing.
At this point Leo is still under control of its keepers and as such can only move 16º at a time, although plans are in the works to make him completely autonomous. Watch this video clip and hope they remember not to feed Leonardo after midnight.
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