Friday, July 17, 2009

Einstein Smiling Robot News roundup

Here is a round up of some of the stories on the Einstein robot that learned to make its own facial expressions, thanks to a mirror, machine learning, and some serious UC San Diego brain power.

LiveScience.com
http://www.livescience.com/technology/090710-robot-expression.html

Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/einstein-robot-teachest-itself-smile

TG Daily
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43157/135/

Wired
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/robotsmile/

Technology Review blog Kristina Grifantini (DK) (B,D,E)
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23825/?nlid=2173

Technology Review video stream: (DK) (B,D,E)
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=388

Tehran Times
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=198622

KPBS radio
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/10/ucsd-robot-learns-human-facial-expressions/

CNET Gadget blog: “crave” Einstein bot: E = mc smile
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10286624-1.html

DViCE
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/a-robot-that-ca.php

GIZMODO
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/robot-einstein-still-learning-to-smile/

gizmag
http://www.gizmag.com/robot-learning-facial-expressions/12218/

Switched
http://www.switched.com/2009/07/12/self-taught-einstein-bot-learns-to-smile-creepily/

MSN 9 News
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/836366/robot-einstein-learns-to-smile

Popular Science video stream
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/einstein-robot-teachest-itself-smile

Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/10/einstein-robot-learns-to-smile-teaches-us-how-to-feel/

The Einstein robot video on YouTube had more than 73,000 hits as of Friday July 17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBUtxfUY_w0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egizmodo%2Ecom%2Eau%2F2009%2F07%2Frobot%2Deinstein%2Dstill%2Dlearning%2Dto%2Dsmile%2F&feature=player_embedded

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