- David Hanson
His area of research investigates facial expression in robots using recent
breakthroughs in elastomer material sciences to enact a sizable range of natural humanlike
facial expressions. This branch of robotics will rise in relevance as humans and robots
begin to have more face-to-face encounters in the coming years.
- Human
Emulation Robotics LLC
Hanson Robotics seeks to endow robots with aesthetic expressivity using biomimetic
structures, innovative design principles, and recent breakthroughs in elastomer material
sciences. Such vectors of development will rise in relevance as humans and robots have
more frequent face-to-face encounters in the coming years.
- How to Build
a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00
It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head (Figure 1)
for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two color video-camera
eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java
application.
- Anthropomorphic
Robot Head
The head is an anthropormphic head with 9 degrees of freedom. The neck can pan left
and right and tilt up and down. The eyes can do individual pan and tilt movements. The jaw
can open and close. The mouth can express smiling and frowning and the eyebrows can move
up and down.
- The digital ape
The digital ape is a continuation of my previous humanoid-like robotics projects.
For this project I wanted to build something more in the style of an animatronic, with an
appealing appearance and which superficially didn't look like a robot. We tend to think of
animatronics as something relatively modern invented for hollywood movies but actually it
has a much longer history going back hundreds of years.The digital ape is a continuation
of my previous humanoid-like robotics projects. For this project I wanted to build
something more in the style of an animatronic, with an appealing appearance and which
superficially didn't look like a robot. We tend to think of animatronics as something
relatively modern invented for hollywood movies but actually it has a much longer history
going back hundreds of years.
|
|