Jul 29, 2025
Babies of the Future
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Babies of the Future
Robot baby: facial expressions are unbelievably life-like
"DIEGO-SAN", by Hanson for the Machine Perception Lab at the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation. With a face by David Hanson and Hanson Robotics, which mounts on a body by Kokoro, this robotic baby boy was built with funding from the National Science Foundation and serves cognitive A.I. and human-robot interaction research.
With high definition cameras in the eyes, Diego San sees people, gestures, expressions, and uses A.I. modeled on human babies, to learn from people, the way that a baby hypothetically would.
The facial expressions are important to establish a relationship, and communicate intuitively to people. As much a work of art as technology and science, this represents a step forward in the development of emotionally relevant robotics.
How far are we away from Spielbergs "A.I."?
(via UCSD's robot baby appears, is happy, sad, a little creepy (video))
(via UCSD's robot baby appears, is happy, sad, a little creepy (video))
Development on the UCSD's Diego-san has been underway for several years and now the robot child is ready for his first home movie. The bot is being constructed to better understand the cognitive development of children, with a camera behind each eye recording (and learning from) human interactions around it. There are 27 moving parts in the face alone and Diego-san is able to replicate a whole gamut of emotions -- and give us shivers as he does...