Meet the Aheadform F1: a half humanoid robot designed for more realistic social interaction. It can switch identities, so you can use something like this as a teacher, therapist, and companion. These were recently working on teaching realistic lip motions to face robots. As they explain:
we used a self-supervised learning pipeline based on a variational autoencoder (VAE) combined with a facial action transformer, enabling the robot to autonomously infer more realistic lip trajectories directly from speech audio.
Aheadform revealed their new highly realistic half-humanoid robot F1, designed for companionship and social interaction.
It can perform multiple roles and switch identities at any time: teacher, companion, learning assistant, therapist… pic.twitter.com/H2ROAiNHEc
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The below video shows this humanoid robot face in action. More info is available here.
