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November 9, 2004
PaPeRo - The bot with the lot
PaPeRo is NEC's partner-type personal robot, who development is led by Junichi Osada.
"When Osada whispers, 'Sing me a song', the robot rolls its head and complies. The song over, Osada gently pats PaPeRo's head and the robot's eyes glow in response. 'We've programmed PaPeRo to take photographs, tell us about tomorrow's weather, provide updates on the stock market and connect to the internet,' Osada says. 'He's fairly talented.' Papero also converses, delivers personal messages and, when Osada dozes off, switches off the telly."
"In the course of in-depth evaluations with PaPeRo, NEC focused on the human-robot interactions in the real environment encountered at home. Based on the data and insights in the evaluations, the new PaPeRo with more sophisticated human-robot interaction capabilities has been developed . "
Sources:
My Baby Bot, Peter Familari, The Herald Sun, Sydney, Australia, 2004 November 03,
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11252195%255E11869,00.html, "A small robot has startling human characterists ..."
NEC Personal Robot Center, http://www.incx.nec.co.jp/robot/english/robotcenter_e.html
Posted by sjc at November 9, 2004 9:30 AM
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