Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots
Jacob Whitehill at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering has demonstrated a proof of concept that allows his facial expressions to speed-up and slow-down video playback. Pretty sweet. But we're more interested to hear that his project is part of a larger effort at the UCSD Machine Perception Lab (gulp) to use automated face recognition to "make robots more effective teachers." We can see the future nowHuman: (frowning) Robot: Aw, my meat bag is sad, I will now give it a hamburger and turn on Golden Girls.
