Albert van Breemen
ABSTRACT
We developed a robotic research platform called "iCat" for studying social human-robot interaction. The platform consists of the robotic character "iCat", which is a desktop user-interface robot with mechanically rendered facial expressions. Recently, Philips Research made this platform available for universities and research laboratories to stimulate the momentum in Human-Robot Interaction research [5].
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Digital Library
- Breemen, A. J. N. van, "Bringing Robots to Life: Applying Principles of Animation to Robotics", In proceedings of CHI2004 Workshop on Shaping Human-Robot Interaction, 2003.Google Scholar
- Breemen, A. J. N. van, "Animation Engine for Believable Interactive User-Interface Robots", IROS2004, sept 2004.Google Scholar
- Breemen, A. J. N. van, "iCat: Experimenting with Animabotics", AISB 2005 Creative Robotics Symposium, Hatfield, England, April 2005.Google Scholar
- Philips Research, http://www.research.philips.com/robotics, 2005.Google Scholar
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