Lamp-robot Pinokio

Students Adam Ben-Dror, Shanshan Zhou and Joss Dogget, studying at Victoria University in Wellington (New Zealand), collected a table lamp animatronic Pinokio, which does not miss the person working at the table. A "live" lamp Pinokio carefully looks after the person and tries to interact with it, as it is developed to study the expressive and behavioral potential of computer algorithms.









Cool lamp-robot Pinokio for lighting uses halogen light bulb, moving through the servos, and monitors the user and recognizes his face using a camera and special software. In addition, built-in microphone helps the lamp to listen and respond to sounds. She loves to play with man hide and seek, outraged, when she was not paying attention; and did not tolerate his off, so the self involves, Recalling its harmful character to the most useless machine. If funny lamp Pinokio was white and knew how to jump, it could be confused with the famous characters of the animated film Luxo Jr., filmed by Studio Pixar in 1986.

 




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