ANTY : The development of an intelligent huggable robot for hospitalized children
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چکیده
development of an intelligent huggable robot named ANTY (Fig.1) that will interact with hospitalized children to distract and support them during their stay in hospital. This robot is subject of a multidisciplinary project covering research opportunities not only in mechanical design, vision, speech and AI, but also in sociology and psychology. The main goal of the first phase is the development of the head of the robot. By moving its head (2 DOF), eyes (3 DOF), eyelids (2 DOF), eyebrows (2 DOF), ears (2 DOF), trunk (3 DOF) and mouth (3 DOF) it will be able to express its emotions.
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