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[Project image] Social Robots
Head: Reid Simmons
Contact: Reid Simmons (reids@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC
Associated labs/groups: Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and Human-Robot Interaction Group

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - September 2006.
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Project Description

The goal of the Social Robot Project is to overcome the human-robot social barrier. Towards this end, we are in the process of developing a robot which bears a personality, and which can behave according to social conventions. The idea is that communication and interaction with robots should be easy and enjoyable, both for unfamiliar users and trained professionals. We want robots to behave more like people, so that people do not have to behave like robots when they interact with them.

Personnel [Past Members]

Name Title Email Address
Greg's personal homepage Greg Armstrong Senior Research Technician, CS roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
Allison's personal homepage Allison Bruce PhD Student, RI abruce@andrew.cmu.edu
Marek's personal homepage Marek Piotr Michalowski PhD Student, RI n/a
Illah's personal homepage Illah Nourbakhsh Associate Professor illah@ri.cmu.edu
Reid's personal homepage Reid Simmons Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS reids@cs.cmu.edu

Past Sub-projects

Vikia - We are developing a robot who has personality and with whom it is easy to communicate.
 

Recent publications [View all 17 publications]

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