Super expressive robot 'Eva' can mimic eerie human facial expressions
dailystar.co.ukrobot called EVA can respond to match the expressions of nearby humans.Researchers at the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia Engineering have been working for five years to create EVA.Hod Lipson, James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation (Mechanical Engineering) and director of the Creative Machines Lab said: "The idea for EVA took shape a few years ago, when my students and I began to notice that the robots in our lab were staring back at us through plastic, googly eyes.”Lipton noted a similar trend in the supermarket, where he saw restocking robots that wore name badges and in one case, a hand-knitted hat."People seemed to be humanizing their robotic colleagues by giving them eyes, an identity, or a name," he said."This made us wonder,.
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