A head called Richard

Abstract

This paper describes two preliminary experiments concerned with the construction of a robot head. The initial design and research is aimed at producing a system with two cameras and two microphones on a system capable of operating with the same degrees of freedom and reflex times as its biological counterpart. Whilst the primary goal of the project is develop an anthropomorphic system with the sensory reflex capabilities of a human head, the system will also contain some non-anthropomorphic components. The most obvious of the non-anthropomorphic components is a spatially and temporally programmable light source. Some preliminary results are presented. use this information to direct autonomous behaviour (Brooks, 1989) but these reflexes have not been coupled