Robotic Speak Episode 133 – Creating sociable robotic collaborators, with Heather Knight

Claire chatted to Heather Knight from Oregon State College about making use of strategies from the performing arts to robotics.

Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics analysis group. Her schooling features a PhD on Expressive Movement for Low Diploma of Freedom Robots from Carnegie Mellon College, and M.S. and B.S. levels in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise. She has labored at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aldebaran Robotics, and produced the Robotic Movie Competition, a Cyberflora robotic flower backyard, robotic comedy on TED.com, and a two-floor Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go that received a British Video Music Award.