Soft skin texture modulation for social robotics

Hu, Yuhan; Zhao, Zhengnan; Vimal, Abheek; Hoffman, Guy

doi:10.1109/robosoft.2018.8404917

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“…New methods are also emerging for the construction of physical robots. Rapid fabrication methods, such as 3D printing, have led to the development of new robot morphologies, including 3D printable robots inspired by "origami" [Onal et al 2014] and robots with soft skin that can change appearance and texture to communicate internal states to the user [Hu et al 2018]. Mixed-reality technologies are also being utilized to facilitate human interaction with robots, including displaying cues that communicate the motion intent and and the field of view ] of the robot.…”

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“…Soft robots can be defined as systems that are capable of autonomous behavior and primarily composed of materials with elastic moduli in the range of that of soft biological materials (Rus and Tolley, 2015). Soft robots are claimed to offer inherently safer interactions with humans (Laschi et al, 2016), yet only a few publications have addressed how humans experience soft robots and how intuitive and engaging human interaction with them might be designed (Jørgensen, 2017a;Zheng, 2017;Boer and Bewley, 2018;Hu et al, 2018;Jørgensen, 2018;Shutterly et al, 2018;Zheng, 2018;Milthers et al, 2019;Jørgensen and Ploetz, 2020;Jørgensen et al, 2021;Zheng and Walker, 2019). Soft robotics technology has recently made its way into art, design, and architecture projects (Jørgensen, 2017b;Jørgensen, 2019).…”

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The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

Jørgensen

Christiansen

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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In this article, we report on research and creative practice that explores the aesthetic interplay between movement and sound for soft robotics. Our inquiry seeks to interrogate what sound designs might be aesthetically engaging and appropriate for soft robotic movement in a social human-robot interaction setting. We present the design of a soft sound-producing robot, SONŌ, made of pliable and expandable silicone and three sound designs made for this robot. The article comprises an articulation of the underlying design process and results from two empirical interaction experiments (N = 66, N = 60) conducted to evaluate the sound designs. The sound designs did not have statistically significant effects on people’s perception of the social attributes of two different soft robots. Qualitative results, however, indicate that people’s interpretations of the sound designs depend on robot type.

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“…Additional transformations could enrich the capability of swarm user interfaces. For example, each robot could change its texture to communicate its internal state, similar to [15]. Another interesting aspect of shape-changing swarms is the potential to simultaneously achieve both topologically equivalent (e.g., form, volume) and non-topologically equivalent shapes (e.g., adding/subtracting, permeability) by combining individual and collective shape transformations.…”

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ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots

Suzuki

Zheng

Kakehi

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Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Figure 1. ShapeBots exemplifies a new type of shape-changing interface that consists of a swarm of self-transformable robots. A) Two ShapeBot elements. B) A miniature reel-based linear actuator for self-transformation. By leveraging individual and collective transformation, ShapeBots can provide C) interactive physical display (e.g., rendering a rectangle), D) object actuation (e.g., cleaning up a desk), E) distributed shape display (e.g., rendering a dynamic surface), and F) embedded data physicalization (e.g., showing populations of states on a US map). ABSTRACTWe introduce shape-changing swarm robots. A swarm of selftransformable robots can both individually and collectively change their configuration to display information, actuate objects, act as tangible controllers, visualize data, and provide physical affordances. ShapeBots is a concept prototype of shape-changing swarm robots. Each robot can change its shape by leveraging small linear actuators that are thin (2.5 cm) and highly extendable (up to 20cm) in both horizontal and vertical directions. The modular design of each actuator enables various shapes and geometries of self-transformation. We illustrate potential application scenarios and discuss how this type of interface opens up possibilities for the future of ubiquitous and distributed shape-changing interfaces.interfaces [5,38]-will follow the same path as technology advances. Although current interfaces are often large, heavy, and immobile, these interfaces will surely be replaced with hundreds of distributed interfaces, in the same way that desktop computers were replaced by hundreds of distributed mobile computers. If shape-changing interfaces will become truly ubiquitous, how can these interfaces be distributed and embedded into our everyday environment? This paper introduces shape-changing swarm robots for distributed shape-changing interfaces. Shape-changing swarm robots can both collectively and individually change their shape, so that they can collectively present information, act as controllers, actuate objects, represent data, and provide dynamic physical affordances.

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Soft skin texture modulation for social robotics

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