Christian Becker-Asano

[B]elievable [A]ndroids

Robot videos

Robotics related videos of my work.

Details: Written by Administrator; Published: 11 June 2011; Last Updated: 29 June 2020; Hits: 4979

"MARCO @ UFreiburg":

In 2014 we started to build "MARCO", the Multimodal Autonomous RoboChess Opponent". Below you find related videos with newest first. Have fun!

We demonstrated MARCO at ICMI2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, and won the Outstanding Demo Award. (Watch this video on youtube, if you like.)

In that configuration we realized:

a few display movements
emotional facial expressions driven by WASABI based on the evaluation of the board
detection of and recovering from "invalid moves" by the human player (at least to some extend)

Next steps / improvements:

change the display for a bigger one
implement many more agent behaviors based on a newly invented animation framework
finish integration of NOVA framework
possibly integrate the IntraFace tracking software
devise and conduct empirical studies

It can also be controlled from a remote place using the freechess.org server and any client. Thus, someone can play against me using the robot arm to move his or her pieces.

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"DARYL @ Freiburg City":

"Tele-operation in the wild": In Summer 2013 Severin Gustorff and I brought the mildly-humanized robot DARYL to Freiburg City.

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"Post Human TNA version" (by Robert Iolini for ABC Radio Australia, 2011):

Audio Art. Cyborgs, Androids and Humans. Late night dream time radio, featuring Hiroshi Ishiguro - Geminoid, Donna Haraway - Cyborg Manifesto, William Gibson - Neuromancer, Commissioned by The Night Air for Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Click to download in MP3 format (27.49MB)

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