Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot
Abstract
Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. This paper presents the overall system -- design, hardware, and software -- for Quori, a novel, affordable, socially interactive humanoid robot platform for facilitating non-contact human-robot interaction (HRI) research. The design of the system is motivated by feedback sampled from the HRI research community. The overall design maintains a balance of affordability and functionality. Initial Quori testing and a six-month deployment are presented. Ten Quori platforms have been awarded to a diverse group of researchers from across the United States to facilitate HRI research to build a community database from a common platform.
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@article{arxiv.2109.00662,
title = {Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot},
author = {Andrew Specian and Ross Mead and Simon Kim and Maja Matarić and Mark Yim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00662},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
20 pages. 21 figures. This was accepted to and will be published to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Journal