iCat: an animated user-interface robot with personality

ABSTRACT

We developed a robotic research platform called "iCat" for studying social human-robot interaction. The platform consists of the robotic character "iCat", which is a desktop user-interface robot with mechanically rendered facial expressions. Recently, Philips Research made this platform available for universities and research laboratories to stimulate the momentum in Human-Robot Interaction research [5].

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