F E E L I X
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FEEL, Interact, eXpress: A humanoid LEGO robot you can interact with and that
expresses basic emotions -
[2008: Feelix
now has two descendants: Seymour
and Moodles (who
will star in the film Raspberry Magic),
also humanoid LEGO robots.]
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Feelix is a humanoid robot built out
of LEGOs in 1998-2000. Controlled by two Mindstorms™ RCX'es, it reacts to
tactile stimulation by changing its facial expression. It is capable of
displaying anger, sadness, happiness, fear, and surprise. It was designed and
programmed by Jakob Fredslund and Lola Cañamero, and built by Jakob
Fredslund, then with Lego Lab at Aarhus University. We have written a report about Feelix, and two papers about Feelix (see below). Rasmus B. Lunding has created
emotional sound patterns supporting the facial expressions and edited a video Click here for an image gallery including hi-resolution photos (Click here for a Danish
homepage for children) (Click here to get to my
robots page with other robots I've built and programmed, including Feelix’
descendant Dr. Watson) Feelix continues to attract attention from around
the world. It has received emails from four continents from children,
parents, researchers, journalists and people who simply have caught interest.
It appears in two children's books: Robotics
(Cool Science), Helena Domaine, Lerner Publications (ISBN
0822521121) 2005, and Robot
(DK Eyewitness Books), Rodger Francis Bridgman, Dorling
Kindersley (ISBN 0756602548), and it was used in the 2005 Australasian
Schools English Competition test paper. |
Guess how Feelix feels:
Publications:
Lola D. Cañamero, Jakob Fredslund,
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Show You How I Like You: Emotional Human-Robot Interaction through Facial
Expression and Tactile Stimulation,
In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 454-459, September 2001.
Lola D. Cañamero, Jakob Fredslund,
How
Does It Feel? Emotional Interaction with a Humanoid LEGO Robot,