Project DOG
A robotic research project looking at prototyping a social robot
Introduction
Our group was given the assignment to create a prototype of a social robot. To execute a
project to perfection one must first perfectly understand the aim of the project.
Therefore we
set out to understand what exactly was meant by “Social robotics”. Science fiction has
always
been obsessed with the possibilities of animating the inanimate.
Some examples of these
incredibly popular fictional characters include Robby the robot, KITT, and perhaps most
famously C3PO (Figure 1). Our research concluded that perhaps the easiest type of social
robot to develop would be on that mimics the behaviourisms of a canine. We, therefore,
set
out to build a dog-like robot that would be able to interact with humans by using a
variety of
sensors.
Project Details
Author: Christiaan Burrett-Bijlstra
Date: 8th of June, 2019
