Researchers have developed a telepresence system based mostly on a humanoid robotic that enables customers to nearly navigate distant environments and work together with individuals in these environments
At present, telepresence methods allow you to transfer geographical boundaries, permitting real-time, two-way collaboration between individuals at completely different areas. To enhance the immersiveness and efficiency of the present system, researchers at Hanyang College and Duksung Girls’s College in South Korea have invented a promising telepresence system based mostly on a humanoid robotic, a head-mounted show, a movement transporter, a voice transporter, and a imaginative and prescient transporter system. This could allow human customers to completely embody a humanoid robotic in a distant location, utilizing its physique to navigate the setting and work together with others in it just like their bodily presence over there.
“The current examine goals to develop a beaming system that gives full physique possession by means of a humanoid robotic and examine customers’ telecommunication experiences as roles of customer and native with completely different ranges of controllability,” Myeongul Jung, Jejoong Kim, Kyungsik Han, and Kwanguk (Kenny) Kim wrote of their paper.
Researchers carried out varied assessments during which individuals interacted with one another in pairs, the place one managed the humanoid robotic and the opposite interacted with it. The pairs accomplished three trials. Initially, the robotic was static and couldn’t be moved in any respect by customers, within the second it might solely flip its head and its actions have been synchronized with these of customers, and within the third, its complete physique might transfer in ways in which mirrored a person’s actions. Researchers word that when customers had better management over a humanoid robotic’s physique and the robotic mirrored their actions, their eye contact, emotional, verbal, and gesture communication fashion was extra aligned with these of the people they have been interacting with.
“Forty individuals have been assigned to each customer and native roles, and their copresence, usability, eye-contact, emotion, verbal, and gesture communications have been investigated,” Jung, Kim, Han, and Kim wrote of their paper.
Researchers envision that the proposed system will improve telepresence functions that entail customers’ distant interplay with different people and encourage the creation of comparable methods based mostly on humanoid robots.
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