Einstein Robot detects Human Facial Expressions

Dr. David Hanson presented at TED2009 some of the research and prototypes of robots that are capable of recognizing human expressions. This is some groundbreaking work in the area of robotics & facial recognition.

The Hanson Robotics team setup their Einstein example and this is a video of it mirroring some of the expressions I was making for it.

The robot is capable of tracking different people in it’s view, maintaining eye contact, some basic voice recognition and mirroring of the expressions of the people it has focused on.

Very cool stuff.