(1) A robot acting troupe that use believable behavior based on high levels of communication and affective architecture to act out dramatic plays improvisationally. Very colorful.
(2) A factotem robot capable of doing any fetch or message-passing task by interacting at an extreme level with untrained humans, complete with natural language parsing for human interaction.
(3) A pyroelectric sensing head that enables a robot to perceive and interact with humans by "seeing" them thermally, without the use of sonars or vision.
Equipment requirements
List of Participants
AAAI-99 Robot Exhibition Home Page
Contact: Illah Nourbakhsh
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-2007
Fax: 412-268-5571