ROBOTICSNovember 14, 20251 min read30 views

Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight

Claire chats with Heather Knight about applying performing arts methods to robotics to create more expressive and social robot collaborators.

Claire chatted to Heather Knight from Oregon State University about applying methods from the performing arts to robotics.

Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. Her education includes a PhD on Expressive Motion for Low Degree of Freedom Robots from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aldebaran Robotics, and produced the Robot Film Festival, a Cyberflora robot flower garden, robot comedy on TED.com, and a two-floor Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go that won a British Video Music Award.

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