In building humanoid robots, we are also building in implicit expectations about the social abilities and interactions that the machine should exhibit. The morphology and aesthetic of the robot play a critical role in defining these expectations. Specifically, the robot face plays a paramount role in establishing the social competence of the machine, and in defining a social contract between the observer and the robot. We will discuss the development ...
In 1991, Ballard described the implications of having a visual system that could actively position the camera coordinates in response to physical stimuli. In humanoid robotic systems, or in any animate vision system that interacts with people, social dynamics provide additional levels of constraint and provide additional opportunities for processing economy. In this paper, we describe an integrated visual-motor system that has been implemented on a humanoid robot to negotiate ...
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