Buddy

Abstract

Buddy with its 60 centimeters and 4 degrees of freedom is a highly engaging social robot. Buddy deploys many assets for social interaction such as its appealing design, its anthropomorphic face able to display emotional reactions and its ability to be proactive to look for a user and propose activities.Buddy is developed by Blue Frog Robotics, a French start-up based in Paris, and aims to be the friendly companion for the whole family. With its intuitive SDK based on the famous UNITY game engine, Buddy is also designed to be a tool for research and education.