For Mertz active vision robot head learning is child’s play

Many robots are programmed. Out of them iCub is one humanoid robot that learns like a child does. And now, Lijin Aryananda and Jeff Weber at the MIT Media Lab have developed the Mertz active vision head robot, to follow the iCub’s stride, to learn, observe and imitate like an infant. Designed to explore scalable learning in a social context, the Mertz very efficiently recognizes and reacts to face expressions and other gestures.

mertz robot

mertz

When left in public for sometime to absorb information, Mertz can then continuously interact with people by recognizing them, mimicking their actions for his own and even repeat common words uttered in conversation. Mertz with 13 degrees of freedom, independently activated eyebrows and lips also has a microphone, and can ably differentiate between people like some and disliking the other few who tend to annoy the bot, just like a kid. We’re looking forward to active vision head robot, more so if they could work on this guys looks.

mertz robot head

Via: MIT/Botropolis