Researchers from the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia Engineering have developed Emo, a robot face that can not only anticipate, but also replicate your smile. More specifically, it can anticipate facial expressions and execute them simultaneously with a human.
Even more impressive is Emo’s ability to predict a forthcoming smile about 840 milliseconds before the person actually smiles, and then co-expressing the smile simultaneously with the person. The silicone skin-covered face face is quipped with 26 actuators that enable a broad range of nuanced facial expressions, while high-resolution cameras within the pupil of each eye enable it to make eye contact.
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When a robot makes co-expressions with people in real-time, it not only improves the interaction quality but also helps in building trust between humans and robots. In the future, when interacting with a robot, it will observe and interpret your facial expressions, just like a real person,” said Yuhang Hu, the study’s lead author who is a PhD student at Columbia Engineering in Lipson’s lab.
