ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Social robots

In simple words, social robots are personal companions or assistive robots that can interact with human beings using speech, vision, and gestures. These robots behave like pets that can express emotions like us and can communicate their emotions using speech or gestures.

Nowadays, most social robots have an LCD display on their heads, actuators for movement, speakers and microphone for communication, and cameras for perception.

Here are some images of popular social robots:

Figure 1: Famous social robots

Let's learn about them:

• Kismet(a): This is a social robot from MIT by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and team, made in the 1990s. Kismet ...