Dancing Divabot performs on stage (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A singing, dancing humanoid recently joined a live group of dancers to perform.
News tagged with facial expressions
Lowland gorillas found to use gesture 'baby talk' with their young
(Phys.org) -- With humans, mothers and other adults have developed a whole separate way of communicating with infants, toddlers and even teens, but that kind of purposeful conversing style is unique; among primates only the ...
Multimodal interaction: Humanizing the human-computer interface
In everyday life humans use speech, gestures, facial expressions, touch to communicate. And, over long distances we resort to text messages and other such modern technology. Notably, when we interact with computers we rely ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2011
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Professor has taken a selfie every day for the past 30 years
Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it every day for the next three decades.
Other
Feb 23, 2017
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Research: Round-faced, big-eyed cats are cute, but you can't tell how they feel
For decades, humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs to exhibit exaggerated features—particularly in their faces. When it comes to cats, the very flat, round faces of the modern Persian and Exotic Shorthair ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 7, 2021
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Cats' faces hard to read, except for 'cat whisperers,' research finds
Cats have a reputation for being hard to read, but new research from the University of Guelph has found that some people are veritable "cat whisperers" who excel at deciphering subtle differences in cats' faces that reveal ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2019
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Affetto: a realistic robot baby is looking at you (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Minoru Asada, a professor of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University in Japan and head of the JST ERATO Asada Project, along with two of his colleagues; Hisashi Ishihara, a PhD candidate at Osaka University; ...
Robots reading feelings
Robots are getting smarter—and faster—at knowing what humans are feeling and thinking just by "looking" into their faces, a development that might one day allow more emotionally perceptive machines to detect changes in ...
Robotics
Apr 5, 2019
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Creating an avatar from a 3-D selfie
Generating a 3D duplicate of someone without the aid of a Hollywood studio: this is the challenge taken up by EPFL researchers, who have successfully condensed an expensive and complex process to use only a smartphone camera.
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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Housecats use hundreds of facial expressions to interact with other cats
Brittany Florkiewicz, an assistant professor of psychology at Lyon College, and Lauren Scott, a medical student at the University of Kansas Medical Center, have together found that housecats have hundreds of facial expressions ...
