Emotional expression of robots was examined in a recent study participated by BME Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Optics, and Mechanical Engineering Informatics (BME-GPK MOGI). The result was made in international cooperation of researchers, institutes and research groups on robotics and ethology. The examination is going to be tested with a waiter robot. The first author of the paper, published in Scientific Reports, published by the prestigious Nature, was Beáta Korcsok (left), assistant lecturer of the BME-GPK MOGI Department. Interview with professor Péter Korondi (right), a member of the project. More
Interview with Gábor
Kovács who made his master degree in mechatronics engineering at BME Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering (GPK). They received his PhD degree at Chuo University
in Japan, with his study focusing on image processing.
'My research was in connection with small exploration rovers, to be sent
on foreign celestial bodies. These rovers have to be controlled in various
ways. For instance, with remote control, the Moon is easily reachable in a few
seconds. But between Earth and Mars, it takes some minutes, so they are out of
reach in real-time. Thus, the robot can navigate itself with computer vision. From the image, it has to recognize obstacles, for instance, if there is a
rock: the rover has to realize that it cannot cope with the rock and evade.' More
