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Robotics Institute
Seminar, September 9
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Place | Seminar Abstract | Speaker
Biography | Speaker Appointments
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The Interbots Initiative at Carnegie Mellon's Interactive
Animatronics with character! Randy Pausch,
Will Bosley Faculty Entertainment Technology Center |
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Webcast |
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Time and Place |
Mauldin Auditorium (
Refreshments
Talk
At the Interbots Initiative, we feel that an embodied character is
critical to a believable animatronic experience-- no
matter how impressive the technology, it is impossible to suspend an audience's
disbelief and create the illusion of life without an engaging character and
personality. We also believe that the most successful entertainment experiences
involve the contributions of writers, animators, sculptors, painters, and other
artists. Therefore, the development of simple, intuitive content creation tools
that allow non-technologists to author content for entertainment robotics is
essential.
Our two
primary goals:
1. Develop a fully interactive, autonomous animatronic character that is both believable and
entertaining.
2. Give non-technologists the ability to
author content for entertaining animatronic
experiences by developing an extensible platform
that allows artists to rapidly design
and create complete and interactive social experiences with animatronic
characters.
To meet
these goals, we combine a multitude of technologies; including speech
recognition, face tracking, proximity detection, synthetic interview, finite
state machines, show control, and animatronics. These characters are developed
and brought to life through custom-built animatronic
figures created with off-the-shelf hobby servos.
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Speaker Biography |
For appointments, please
contact Jean Harpley.
(jean@cs.cmu.edu)
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.