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Current CRSP Projects

Note: All projects are inactive

• House of the Deafman - A performance work, a full-length robotic-integrated music-dance-theater piece about the Black Paintings of Francisco Goya, in collaboration with the Theater Dept. and other elements in the CMU community.
• Robotic Performer Research Project - We are developing new mechanical actors including 'Humper', with organic movements and interactivity exploring the social strategies of streetwalking, and 'Laugh Riot', a robotic Jack-in-the-Box whose purpose is the dissemination of false hope.
• Smart Theater Research Project - We are developing new technologies for a performance environment integrating state-of-the-art robotic performers with virtual reality sets and performers.
• Synthetic Performer Research Project - We are developing new strategies for the creation of virtual actors in the digital realm and the programming of 'actual' (robotic) synthetic equivilants through the animation of virtual actors.