Ruth Aylett of Heriot-Watt University demonstrates how Sarah, the LIREC robot companion, can move from her robot body into a mobile phone.
Jul 27, 2012
1 min
A finalist at the CERN film festival (a worldwide festival for films surrounding the themes of science and technology), this short film compares face recognitions in humans and robots. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 215554.
Jul 27, 2012
13 min
An interview with David Fine. David suffers from a condition called prosopagnosia, otherwise known as face blindness, which means he cannot recognise people from their faces.
Jul 27, 2012
8 min
Ginevra Castellano from Queen Mary, University of London explains the purpose and functionality of the face tracking software being developed and why it is so hard for a computer or robot to understand humans.
Jul 27, 2012
3 min
Will robots ever take over the world? Ruth Aylett of Heriot-Watt University tells us why we've no need to worry.
Jul 27, 2012
3 min
Can we produce a robot that behaves in a sufficiently social and intelligent way so as to fit into a human social environment? Ruth Aylett introduces Sarah, the social robot. She explores Sarah's achievements and limitations in terms of facial tracking and recognition. Speech, emotion and gesture recognition is also explored.
Jul 27, 2012
13 min