Smooth organic movements are achieved with tensile mechanisms, elastic components, and a soft exterior cover attached loosely to the body. Blossom's appearance is open-ended through handcrafted fabric exteriors created and customized by users. The robot's mechanism can be quickly assembled and partially extended by end-users. Addressing these challenges, Blossom aims at three design objectives: accessibility, flexibility, and expressiveness. Blossom is an open-source social robotics platform responding to three challenges in human-robot interaction (HRI) research: (1) Designing, manufacturing, and programming social robots requires a high level of technical knowledge (2) social robot designs are fixed in appearance and movement capabilities, making them hard to adapt to a specific application and (3) the use of rigid mechanisms and hard outer shells limits the robots’ expressive capabilities.
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