Posted on 10/31/2020 7:59:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Disney specializes in bringing imagination to life, but its latest innovation takes this idea one step further – a robot designed with a realistic and interactive stare.
The company’s imagineers unveiled a skinless humanoid animatronic bust, complete with movable eyes, eyelids and brows to create a human-like gaze.
The robot is fitted with a chest-mounted sensor that uses motion detection to determine when a guest is attempting to engage, which activates a series of motors that control interactions.
The engineers recently published a study titled ‘Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze,’ in which they write: ‘We present a general architecture that seeks not only to create gaze interactions from a technological standpoint, but also through the lens of character animation where the fidelity and believability of motion is paramount; that is, we seek to create an interaction which demonstrates the illusion of life.’
The robot has 19 degrees-of-freedom, but only makes use of its neck, eyes, eyelids and eyebrows -all of which are controlled by a proprietary software operating on a 100Hz real-time loop.
A chest-mounted sensor, combined with a camera, is used to identify people within the robot’s field-of-view and determines which stimuli is likely to engage based on a ‘curiosity score.’
‘The attention engine generates a ‘curiosity score’ assigned to that person indicating their salience/significance as well as how important it is for the robot character to respond to them,’ reads the study.
To do this, the team programmed the attention engine to gather 3D positions of people spotted in the camera.
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No.
Sarah Carter.
She owes me fifty bucks.
I told you not to lend her any money.
*ouch*
We need a meme of biden as Santa. sniff sniff grope grope grope I see you are a very good girl...
They’re field testing it using the Democrat presidential candidate. He almost looks alive at times. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg model didn’t fool anyone.
Johnny 5 alive! No disassemble!
I am waiting for the Fem-Bot 2025 to come out I hear it will be powered with a Hemi engine and comes with an optional chrome package.
I miss Minnie and Mickey! Disney is becoming a scary place.
So that’s what they did with RBG.
Don’t forget...
Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
“Can I have sex with it?”
Reminds me of a Little Annie Fanny from Playboy mag decades ago. She falls for a robot. True love!
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