Hi,
I am looking to work with the NAO humanoid robot in my Masters thesis and looking for various application areas and incorporating state-of-the-art technologies for solving a problem. Your suggestions will be very helpful.
Thanking you.
Hi Mayuresh Amberkar,
If you are really talking about the "state-of-the-art technology", try making a head wearable device that a human can "mind-control" the NAO. This is meaningful because a robotic companion can enhance humans' functional abilities, especially for people with communication and mobility impairments.
Mayuresh Amberkar okay something a bit ambitious but actually it was something I wanted to do few years ago but I gave up because not enough time and the technology was not there.
You can consider a CNN which is detecting the face expression/emotion (or some body attitude in case of elders) and produce either:
- Motion of the Nao body either mimicking the emotion that was detected or something different in order to change the mood of person
- Synchronize the body motion with a specific speech - try to change the tone if you can because it is an important factor in the voice that can influence the mood of the receptor.
You have an full loop between perception and action (kinematics) and an interesting area of research at the intersection of psychology and robotics.
Cheers
hi,
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Yew-Chung Chak, Fabrice Noreils and C K Gomathy Thank you for your replies. Those were really very interesting suggestions. I have been lately thinking to use NAO robots to act as a care-giver for older aged population. I will check its feasibility and take a look at your suggested topics later, if need be.
Thank you! :-)
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