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FLASH
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FLASH is a research robot capable of displaying different emotional states. It's designed to explore how people respond to robotic companions that can talk, gesticulate, and make facial expressions.
- Creator
- Wroclaw University of Technology
- Country
- Poland π΅π±
- Year
- 2012
- Type
- Humanoids, Research
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Did You Know?
FLASH's head consists of three stacked discs and is capable of expressing a wide variety of emotions. |
When surprised, the robot's eyeballs pop straight out of its head. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Able to recognize objects and faces, and understand speech. Capable of displaying happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, weariness, and disgust.
- HEIGHT
- 125 cm | 49.2 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- 70 cm | 27.6 in
- WEIGHT
- 40 kg | 88.2 lb
- SPEED
- 1.8 km/h | 1.1 mph
- SENSORS
- Hokuyo URG laser range finder, Analog Devices inertial system, Microsoft Kinect, Logitech QuickCam Sphere camera.
- ACTUATORS
- Maxon brushed DC motors
- POWER
- 42-V 16-Ah lithium-polymer battery and 16.8-V 10-Ah lithium-polymer secondary battery, 2 hours of operation
- COMPUTING
- microATX board with Intel i7 quad-core CPU and Freescale PowerPC MPC555 CPU.
- SOFTWARE
- Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7 OS with Gostai Urbi, FaTiMa, Player, Adept ARIA, OpenCV, SDL, Microsoft Speech API, Loquendo, PittPatt, and OpenNI.
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 51 (Arms: 7 DoF x 2; Hand: 12 DoF x 2; Head: 11 DoF; Wheels: 2 DoF)
- MATERIALS
- Aluminum chassis, plastic parts printed in selective laser sintering and rapid-prototyping.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Discontinued
- WEBSITE
- http://www.flash.lirec.ict.pwr.wroc.pl