The robot developed at the University of famous MIT in Boston (United States) was the star of the eleventh show of the Virtual Reality in Laval, in late April. The particularity of Nexia MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) is not its mode of locomotion, no legs to Asimo, or his arm, his ability to express feelings during interactions with humans.

Video devices and electronic sensors and actors allow it to “represent” numerically its environment and react to people around him. The mechanical system that manages the orientation of the head by example has been designed to react quickly to resemble as closely as possible human reactions. “It heralds the machines of the future will be increasingly directed towards humans,” explains one of its designers Mickey Siegel.

Nexia is the result of collaboration between different research labs, the Personal Robots Group at MIT’s MediaLab, University of Massachusetts Amherst and his laboratory on the perception of robots, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics.

As you can see from this picture, the facial expressions have been developed to mimic a diverse range of facial expressions including staring, surprise, fear, bad temper. The movement of the eyebrows and eyelids as well articulated jaw, allow expressive poses. Nexia is equipped with CCD in each eye, four microphones, which provide sound localization, and a voice synthesis system.

There is one and a half, the University of Maastricht has granted a doctorate to a researcher in artificial intelligence whose thesis focused on marriage between humans and robots. “Levy’s thesis examines human attitudes in the areas of affection, love and sexuality and concluded that these behaviors are equally applicable in interaction with robots in the future, since they are Based on our discussions today, “added PC INpact.