F E E L
I X
- 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 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,