Monday, February 26, 2007

Okay so I was off about the next week thing. However I have a camera and a 9V battery so I am ready. The video will be up on Thursday, March 1st. The video will also be posted on youtube. I will also post information on my thesis on Thursday. I have to prepare a research presentation on Wednesday so I am quite busy with that.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Masters Thesis

Lately there has been a trend in robotics with communication. In SIGRAPH last year two robots spoke to each other in ultra-sonic frequencies. My thesis project is in a similar vein. I am going to create two robots that communicate to each other via some language. As currently planned one robot will be cute and the other intimidating. The cute robot will have a more natural sounds while the other robot will communicate in a much more robotic noises. They will have noises that will fit certain emotions and an small AI to figure out what the correct emotional response would be to the other's emotion. I would also like to add a component where the viewer can change the conversation by talking to one or both of the robots. More information on the “cute” robot later.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

New Semester

I will have video of last semester's final project up by next week. I will also be blogging about my interactive installation class and my thesis research. More details on that later in the week.