I organized the HRI2008 Student Design Competition this year. We had seven teams from around the world, each giving the jury (Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kerstin Dautenhan, Peter Kahn, Karl MacDorman, audience) a five minutes presentation. The students created marvelous robots in the short time that was available to them. In the end, the team from Amsterdam [...]
The web pages proposes a series of questionnaires to measure the users’ perception of robots. This series shall be called “Godspeed” because it is intended to help creators of robots on their development journey. Below you find the English, Spanish and Japanese version. Please email me your translations into other languages. The Spanish translation was [...]
A new conference in the research field of human-robot interaction has emerged. The 1st International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships will take place on June 12-13, 2008 in Maastricht.
QuickTime VR is a photorealistic cross-platform virtual reality technology that makes it possible to explore places and objects as if you were really there. At the intersection of commercial photography and new media technology, QuickTime VR moves the photographic image from the flat, 2D world into a more immersive experience, complete with 3D imagery and [...]
René Ahn, Loe Feijs, Saskia Bakker, Sibrecht Bouwstra, Jos Verbeek, Bram van der Vlist, Arne Wessels and Rick van de Westelaken created wonderful robots and Lego extensions.