TALBOT

Project description

A social robot that’s aware of our needs and continuously adapts its behaviour to them and has the potential of creating a complex, personalized, human-like interaction of the kind we are used to having with our peers everyday. However, adaptability, being a result of a process of learning and making errors, also brings with its uncertainty.

To explore this, in this project we will develop a cognitive architecture for PAL Robotics’ humanoid robots ARI supporting adaptability. We aim to validate its functionality and establish the benefits it could bring with respect to more traditional pre-scripted interaction protocols for robots.

In addition, situated conversations require the robot to take appropriate actions, regarding the environment and behavior of the people in it. We will validate the proposed technology in healthcare applicative scenarios, and in particular in a day hospital for users of diverse ages.

Project TALBOT Logo
  • Status: Ongoing

  • Reference: H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2017

  • Topics: Human-robot interaction, Personal Robots, human cognitive mental model, Robot proactive behaviour, Robot personalisation

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 801342 (Tecniospring INDUSTRY) and the Government of Catalonia’s Agency for Business Competitiveness (ACCIÓ).

Robot used in the project:

Frontal view of the social humanoid robot ARI
ARI

Partners:

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