Source Newsroom: University of California, San Diego Newswise —
The world is getting a long-awaited first glimpse at a new
humanoid robot in action mimicking the expressions of a one-
year-old child. The robot will be used in studies on sensory-
motor and social development – how babies “learn” to control
their bodies and to interact with other people. Diego-san’s
hardware was developed by leading robot manufacturers: the head
by Hanson Robotics, and the body by Japan’s Kokoro Co. The
project is led by University of California, San Diego full
research scientist Javier Movellan. Movellan directs the
Institute for Neural Computation's Machine Perception
Laboratory, based in the UCSD division of the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
(Calit2). The Diego-san project is also a joint collaboration
with the Early Play and Development Laboratory of professor Dan
Messinger at the University of Miami, and with professor Emo
Todorov's Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Was