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Huggable At Work
Mon 11.07.05 9:37pm PST #15990
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A cool sight appeared in the lobby of our building this morning. Dan Stiehl was here from the MIT Media Lab Robotic Life Group with a stack of black Pelican cases labelled FRAGILE: ROBOT. Dan was in town to present at the Caring Machines, AI in Eldercare Conference, so I asked him to bring his huggable therapeutic robot to our offices for a demo. I've been watching the progress of the huggable throughout the year on my trips to the lab. The first whole prototype of the robot, which uses the skin of a Gund Butterscotch Teddy Bear, will be ready in January 2006.

Among other pieces, Dan demonstrated the voice coil actuators (4), which will articulate the head of the huggable without an annoying mechanical whirr, and be forgiving of pushback forces from the human.

Dan specializes in the engineering behind the huggable's electric field sensor-driven Read more about the use of huggables in Japan.

- mike lee - washington, dc
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