Virtual Humans and Humanoid Robots

The Intelligent System's group seminar CS8011A (Robots Everywhere) will focus on virtual humans and humanoid robots this quarter. We will discuss how to program their behavior. We meet Fridays 2-3 in the GVU conference room. Please come, and/or send me email (cga@cc.gatech.edu) if you are interested.

Examples of current research on virtual humans and humanoid robots can be found in what follows:

I will be working with the full body robot from SARCOS in collaboration with the Kawato Dynamic Brain Project and Stefan Schaal:

Conferences:

• Virtual Humans 3
• Virtual Humans 2
• Virtual Humans 1
• First International Symposium on Humanoid Robots: HURO '96, Tokyo, Japan

Virtual Humans

• Hodgins, GT Animation Lab
• Badler, U. Penn
• D. Thalmann, Lig, Computer Graphics Lab, EPFL
• N. Thalmann, MIRALab, U. of Geneva
• Boston Dynamics Inc (BDI)
• Perlin at NYU: Adding Noise
• Lifeforms
• VRML Humanoid

Other random stuff

• Synthetic characters at the MIT Media Lab
• Virtual Aerobis Instructor, MIT Media Lab
• Oz project at CMU
• Saar
• joint info
• Dancing Baby

Humanoid Robots

• MITI Humanoid Robot program
• Kuniyoshi, ETL, Japan
• Humanoid project, Waseda U., Japan
• more Waseda U. stuff
• more Waseda U. stuff
• more Waseda U. stuff
• more Waseda U. stuff
• Saika, U. Tokyo, Japan
• Honda
• Cog
• Vanderbilt
• U. Tokyo
• Martial arts robot

In Japanese

• Master-Slave Type Humanoid Robot (MSTHR) Project

Other random stuff

• A Centaur

Written by Chris Atkeson (cga@cc.gatech.edu)