Meet the Flash. Here’s a new social robot from Wroclaw (VIDEO) – Portal Radio Wroclaw

Dorothy Czubaj, Przemek Galecki | Created: 2015-09-28 16:34 | Updated: 2015-09-28 16:38

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It has a 135 cm tall and weighs approx. 50 kg can express emotions, gesticulate, check e-mail and wake up the largest snooze. Here’s Flash Mk II built at the Technical University of Wroclaw.
 

He can check Facebook, read our messages and always finds time to talk. To Flash, which is an interactive social robot, which is the latest invention of scientists from the Technical University of Wroclaw. According to the creators of the robot’s greatest asset is its human element. Just as we are proving their emotions, says one of the designers – Christopher Kubasek:

The robot is available for purchase. The price for one copy made the order is about 150 thousand euros.

photo. Dorothy Czubaj

Flash prototype of Wroclaw were able to see two years ago. The robot then moved to the central railway station. The researchers studied, among other things reactions of people in contact with the robot, which is able to gesticulate and express emotions.

The new robot, although it is very similar to its predecessor, it is a completely new design. He can not just gesticulate and express emotions, but also to talk and recognize speech in more than 20 languages. His vision system, built with an HD camera and sensor Kinect can recognize human gestures, face in 3D and objects held in their hands.

That’s not all. Since the construction of a prototype developed were also high-level functions. Today, the robot is able to check the weather forecast, calendar, news, e-mail, send an e-mail and play music from a preset radio station.

– If you want, also check Facebook, add post our photos and can “lajkować “other posts. You can also ask him to wake us in the morning and doing it very effectively. Not only it seems the weight of noise, but also waits to go over it and make the appropriate gesture – said Dr. Eng. John Kędzierski from the Department of Cybernetics and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology, who together with Paul Kaczmarek and Michal constructed Dziergwa Flash. To cooperate invited the Wroclaw office design Cad-Mech, and by design, was responsible Christopher Kubasek of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Wroclaw robot in October will go to the Scottish Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. “

social robot? By the way, it sounds all a bit familiar.