Vivre avec les Robots

Today, I saw the French documentary on robots:

Vivre avec les Robots / Living with robots (2012)

http://dai.ly/WeIToo (in French from dailymotion.com)

Short introduction in English @ pariscience.fr

http://bit.ly/VByveB

Production note in French

http://www.gedeonprogrammes.com/fr/fiche.php?annee=&id=598

It presents the current robot technology and discusses its sociological implication.

The following are some of the research programs introduced in the show (the pointers are what I found on the Web):

Robotics at LAAS CNRS: http://www.laas.fr/robots/

Especially, the Jido system performing human-robot collaboration:

http://www.laas.fr/robots/jido/data/en/supervision.php

Emotion detection with Nao

http://perso.limsi.fr/Individu/mtahon/

iCub, the (infantile) robot platform

http://www.icub.org

CB2, the baby humanoid robot

http://pinktentacle.com/2007/06/cb2-baby-humanoid-robot/

Asimo from Honda (human-robot interaction)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimo

Justin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_(robot)

Armar

http://his.anthropomatik.kit.edu/english/241.php

Conversational agents with Jean-Claude Heudin

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/4310050_Web_Mining_in_the_EVA_Intelligent_Agent_Architecture

Angie, another Siri competitor

http://wmpoweruser.com/angie-another-windows-phone-siri-competitor/