Quasi the Intelligent Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday October 1, 2006 @05:30AM from the but-does-it-vacuum-floors? dept.

Jake David writes to tell us about a uniquely emotive robot — named Quasi — developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Quasi appears capable of holding intelligent conversations. Here is a a video of the robot in action. Note that the animatronic figure is little more than the emotive organ of the robot, whose entirety encompasses the display booth as well. From the CMU page: "Quasi has a number of features in addition to his eyelids for conveying emotion, the most prominent of which are Color Kinetics LED lighting fixtures for his eyes and antennae. These combine red, green, and blue LEDs... His antennae can move both forward and backward as well as in and out, giving them an expressive quality not unlike that of a dog's ears."

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Well, then... by OpenSourced · 2006-10-01 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Quasi appears capable of holding intelligent conversations

Well, then this Quasi is far ahead of most people I know.

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I figured it out by Alb_Be · 2006-10-01 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

There's someone sitting under that table with a microphone!
I hate his personality by nEoN+nOoDlE · 2006-10-01 06:00 · Score: 5, Funny

As a robot, he's way too upbeat and energetic. He should be cynical and depressing like Marvin.

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