The Pomi penguin robot, Able to InteractSEOUL - South Korean researchers launched the latest model of the robot pet. A penguin named Pomi who claimed to be able to interact with humans.
Pomi is a continuation of Penguin Robot for Multimodal Interaction. He was claimed by the inventor has the ability to see, hear, touch and smell menyium. This capability can be demonstrated by a change in the face of the robot.
This robot is the result of development of the researchers in Electronics and Telecommunications Researcher Institute (ETRI). They will begin to enhance Pomi so it can be commercialized in the next end-month.
The robot can move their lips, eyebrows, eyes move freely even as a form of expression of emotions in him. Even a box in his chest will show different heart rate according to his mood.
Pomi is programmed to answer his master through voice recognition technology and several different sensors enable it to recognize and locate others.
"Technology and interactive functions of emotion expression has been used in Pomi. This technology will also be upgraded for the benefit of home robot industry, manufacturing and the needs of other smart robots, "ETRI spokesman said as quoted by AFP