Meet the dancing robot (or let them introduce themselves)

The video below was taken during a final year module of Artificial Intelligence Techniques by one of the students, Devan Gokani. The session looked at social robotics and chatbots. As well as the robots, the students also played with the multi-award winning Mitsuku chatbot http://www.square-bear.co.uk/mitsuku/chat.htm

The robot show below is an Aldebaran NAO robot.


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Aldebaran NAO robot in Teaching

Photo by John Sinclair

I had my first opportunity today to try an Aldebaran NAO robot as a teaching tool in an AI class today at the University of Northampton. The session was an end of term activity around summarising what we did in the AI class so far and questions. 

A question came up around AI and it's impact on society. Perfect opportunity to bring in a social robot - especially as a precursor for when we include a session on social robotics next term.

The robot was part of the investment in STEM teaching part-funded by HEFCE.


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