Take tips from the arts to make robots come alive

摘要

Like PCs, robots may soon become a key part of our everyday lives, but they present unique communication challenges that PCs do not. So roboticists are turning to people who have already solved many of these problems - actors, animators and dancers. Here, New Scientist brings you some of the artistic know-how that has proved useful. MASKED THEATRE The 50-centimetre-tall, white plastic Nao humanoid (pictured, below left) looks adorable. But with such a plain, rigid face -just two big lights for eyes and a pinhole of a mouth - how does the bot do it? Julien Corrias, a "behavioural