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Can We Transmit Emotions Through Telepresence Robots?

By Baxstar J. Ferguson

January 7, 2012

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Remotely projecting your presence has never looked so weird…

Many of the ideas surrounding the function and value of robots have to do with telepresence–the ability to project a personal likeness to a faraway location. Telenoid is designed specifically around that premise. Developed by Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR), the same people who brought us Geminoid, Telenoid is essentially a complex version of the iPhone’s FaceTime. On top of voice broadcast, the Telenoid mimics the facial and upper-body movement of its user (It is capable of eye movement; head tilting; opening its mouth; and limb movement) through a software system called FaceAPI.

Below is a video of the Telenoid in action. You can see it going through all the motions.

Baxstar

Baxstar J. Ferguson is a serial storyteller. Their work, across mediums, is to tell a vivid, meaningful story that comes from the heart and connects authentically and powerfully with the right audience. Baxstar’s work holds so much versatility from journalistic articles and op-eds to creative nonfiction. They also do translation, photography, and illustration.

For a decade now, they’ve worked with Lonely Planet, Esquire, Yahoo! Canada, ravishly, Thrillist, Playboy.com, sharecare, care/of, Avocados from Mexico, Marriott, Scotiabank, and Hearstmade.

Baxstar graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2004 with a degree in Social Development Studies and from Athabasca University in 2014 with a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies.