Researchers found that after spending several weeks with QRIO the robot, toddlers treated him more like each other than a simple toy. For more info:...
This video demonstrates that Acroban affords original physical human-robot interactions where joints become interfaces and compliance provides safety and intuitiveness. Acroban provokes spontaneous highly positive...
This was a 'research through design' project that I did on child-robot interaction. The goal was to gain insight in imitation and interaction through movement....
Sandtray is a hardware set-up to facilitate and mediate human-robot social interaction, simplifying the robot control task while enabling an equal degree of manipulation for...
Acroban the Humanoid: Playful and Compliant Physical Child-Robot Interaction (INRIA & LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, FRANCE) Acroban is the first humanoid robot that can demonstrate...
This video shows that Acroban affords natural intuitive human physical guidance through a physical human robot interface based on morphological computation. When a human takes...
This video illustrates the ability of Acroban to keep its balance under various unknown and large external perturbations, all with a single motor primitive with...
Acroban is a lightweight compliant humanoïd robot. It is capable of semi-passive dynamic movement, including semi-passive dynamic walking. Equipped with a multi-articulated vertebral column, its...
This video shows the 30 DOFs mechanical structure of Acroban, showing in particular its multi-articulated torso with the vertebral column as well as springs and...
This video demonstrates that a particular family of external perturbations, ie periodic lateral perturbations here generated by a human, provokes spontaneously passive dynamic walking. While...
