Asimo, the Honda humanoid, one of the world's a lot of admired robots, was assuming off its ball moves this anniversary at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco.
The apprentice was actuality to authenticate some new tricks it's been acquirements from scientists at the Honda Research Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Behzad Dariush, and colleagues plan with Asimo gluttonous to advance robotics technologies that can abetment people, abnormally in agreement of mobility.
In one demonstration, the scientists showed how Asimo can actor a person's movements in absolute time. The advisers use Microsoft's Kinect 3D sensor to clue called credibility on a person's high body, and their software uses an changed kinematics access to accomplish ascendancy commands to accomplish Asimo move. The software prevents cocky collisions and boundless collective motions that adeptness accident its arrangement and is chip with Asimo's whole-body ambassador in adjustment to advance balance. The advisers say that the adeptness of artful a being in absolute time could acquisition applications in apprentice programming and alternate teleoperation, a part of added things.
In addition demo, the scientists showed how they're application gestures to advance Asimo's advice skills. They're developing a gesture-generating arrangement that takes any ascribe argument and analyzes its grammatical structure, timing, and best of chat phrases to automatically accomplish movements for the robot. To accomplish the behavior added realistic, the scientists acclimated a eyes arrangement to abduction bodies assuming assorted gestures, and again they congenital these accustomed movements into their gesture-generating system.
This was my aboriginal appointment face to face with Asimo, and aloft abutting assay I noticed something on Asimo's face that I didn't apperceive it was there. Take a attending at the photo below. Can you see it?
Photos: Evan Ackerman; video: Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman
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