Callo and Cally - The Cellphone Robots
Who would have thought that passion, creativity and some spare Bioloid parts alongside an old school Nokia N82 handset could result in the Callo and Cally cellphone robots!
PhD students Ji-Dong Yim and Prof Chris D. Shaw at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Canada, developed these robots that are capable of displaying emoticon-style facial expressions to let you know of their moods, while performing a variety of gestures including dancing whenever there is an incoming call. It will rely on the Nokia N82's camera to detect human faces, where it can then mimic arm gestures via hand tracking.
Check the below video to see what the future has in store for you:
Two scientists, Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw from Simon Fraser University designed two robots, Cally and Callo both of which interact with each other and express human-link emotions.
These robots have the phone screen as their faces and interact with each other when calls are being made from one robot-phone to another. While on the video-call it identifies human emotions through face recognition technology, if you move one robot the other one moves too.
Check the below video to see what the future has in store for you:
