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8th January 2013

Robot baby appears on video for the first time

"DIEGO-SAN" is a creation of the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. Funding was received from the National Science Foundation, which contracted two companies – Kokoro Co. Ltd. and Hanson Robotics – to build the android infant. His face was engineered by David Hanson and Hanson Robotics, while his body is by Kokoro.

The robot stands 4' 3" (130 cm) tall and weighs 66 lb (30 kg) with a total of 44 pneumatic joints as well as high definition cameras in both eyes. He is intended to be a research platform for studying the cognitive, learning and emotional development of young infants, with a focus on facial expressions.

Dr. Javier Movellan, who heads the Machine Perception Lab at the university: "Its main goal is to try and understand the development of sensory motor intelligence from a computational point of view. It brings together researchers in developmental psychology, machine learning, neuroscience, computer vision and robotics. Basically we are trying to understand the computational problems that a baby's brain faces when learning to move its own body and use it to interact with the physical and social worlds."

 

 

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