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Christian Becker-Asano 11 June 2011 Last Updated: 11 February 2025 Hits: 19565

Prof. Dr. Christian Becker-AsanoProf. Dr. Christian Werner Becker-Asano

Christian Becker-Asano received his doctor's degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Bielefeld in 2008, for his work on affect simulation for agents with believable interactivity (WASABI architecture), which he applied to the articulated communicator Max, a virtual human that he designed as a student.
He was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) during a three month visit in 2005 at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, with the support of Prof. Helmut Prendinger.

From 2008 to 2010 he applied his experience in Affective Computing to the humanoid robots and androids of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Labs at ATR in Kyoto, Japan, supported by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro as a post-doctoral fellow of JSPS and Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) foundation. A return fellowship of the AvH foundation allowed him to join the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Coping with Emergencies" as an affiliated Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) from 2010 to 2011. From 2012 to May 2015, he held the position of a Lecturer (akad. Rat. auf Zeit) in the Research Group on the Foundations of AI, where he applied WASABI to different robotic systems.

In June 2015 he became independent research scientist at Bosch R&D in Renningen (Stuttgart) and from March 2018 until February 2020 he was Product Owner of Intralogistic Robotics leading a dedicated team of roboticists at the Grow platform GmbH in Ludwigsburg.

Since March 2020 he is full professor for "Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction" at Stuttgart Media University in Stuttgart, Germany. He founded the "Humanoid Lab" at the University's Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence in 2021, which became the home of the first German, custom designed android robot "Andrea".

In 2024, he was visiting researcher in the Sugano lab at Tokyo University, Japan, supported by a fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.

He was the co-founder and CTO of Dejita Consulting GbR from 2020 until 2024.


His research interests include (but are not limited to): Social Robotics, Affective Computing, Theory of mind reasoning, Social signal processing and integration, Empirical evaluation of robots in the wild.

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Invited talks, podcasts, media, and presentations

Administrator 11 June 2011 Last Updated: 11 December 2024 Hits: 14153

In reverse chronological order:

  • Androide Roboter - Technik und Einsatzmöglichkeiten
    In: AI and Robotics: Future Skills in der Praxis, Hochschule der Medien, 16.12.2024
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  • Androide Roboter - Technik und Einsatzmöglichkeiten
    In: KI-Herbst Expert Talk, Zentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Prof. D. Reichardt & Prof. H. Mandel, DHBW Stuttgart, 05.12.2024
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  • Emotion simulation and expression in Human-Android interaction in Germany
    In: Designing Humanoids - How much should we learn from humans?, Workshop in conj. with the Humanoids conference, Nancy, 22.11.2024
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  • Interactions with an android robot in a public museum in Germany
    In: Human-Robot-Avatar Interaction and Collaboration: Enhancing robot’s and avatar’s active social capabilities, Workshop in conj. with the Humanoids conference, Nancy, 22.11.2024
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  • Menschenähnliche, sozial-kompetente Roboter
    In: "Ich habe eine Vision", Wissenschaftsfestival der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Rathaus, 15.10.2024
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How our robot software works - Kim demonstrated and explained

Administrator 14 February 2025 Last Updated: 14 February 2025 Hits: 0

Robotic head Kim explained

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In this video I explain, how the android head Kim of the Humanoid Lab can be configured to impersonate Helmut Kohl or any other person you like. Other topics are animation editing, voice cloning, and the ChatGPT connection for response generation. Kim is just one of five robotic heads that we have for projects on Human-Robot Interaction in my lab, which is part of the Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) at Stuttgart Media University. In addition, my lab also hosts the Android Robot Andrea, a sitting, full body android robot from Japan that has been exhibited at many places in Stuttgart, where people could chat with it. It uses the same software as presented here, which we are developing and improving continuously.

Please don't hesitate to contact me, if you are interested to cooperate with us.

 

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Android Andrea progress videos

Administrator 12 May 2023 Last Updated: 18 December 2024 Hits: 0

The android head "Sonny" with my own voice

August 20, 2024

We implemented voice cloning and multi-language support for Andrea and the five android heads. Here is a demo of one head understanding and speaking German at my mother's 80th birthday in Bielefeld.

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Administrator 11 June 2011 Last Updated: 16 April 2025 Hits: 22038

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Dr. Christian Becker-Asano
Professor für Künstliche Intelligenz Hochschule der Medien
Nobelstrasse 10 70569 Stuttgart e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
phone: +49 (0)711 8923-2882
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