Nino robots have learned sign language

The other day, the developers of their Taiwan presented their project, the humanoid robot Nino, who knows how to communicate in sign language. A robot can tell about itself and also shows some words. In general, the main achievement of the developers is not that the robot can tell a little about itself in sign language, but that Nino is able to show complex gestures in general. On this, the project team, which includes 20 experts, took three whole years.

According to the authors of the development, the robot has only 52 degrees of freedom, and its state is controlled by hundreds of different sensors (112 in total). Unfortunately, Nino has not yet been equipped with software that would allow him to understand the interlocutor, so that sign communication is one-way. In addition to speaking in sign language, the robot can climb stairs and ramps, turn, climb, and walk.
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Of course, since the robot can communicate in sign language, at the elementary level, the future work of the authors of the project will help improve knowledge of this language, plus the robot will still be taught to understand the interlocutor, without which this communication will not work. For this software will be developed for the camera of the robot.



It is also interesting that the robot can express its emotions, for which the “face” of the device is equipped with an LED panel, on which emoticons of various kinds are displayed.

The “height” of the robot is 1.45 meters, and it weighs 68 kilograms.

Via ieee.org