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Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by
that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also
robots that will eventually come to empathize with you. So we're
starting with a variety of technologies that have converged into
these conversational character robots that can see faces, make
eye contact with you, make a full range of facial expressions,
understand speech and begin to model how you're feeling and who
you are, and build a relationship with you. I developed a series
of technologies that allowed the robots to make more realistic
facial expressions than previously achieved, on lower power,
which enabled the walking biped robots, the first androids. So,
it's a full range of facial expressions simulating all the major
muscles in the human face, running on very small batteries,
extremely lightweight. The materials that allowed the battery-
operated facial expressions is a material that we call Frubber,
and it actual