We tested a RAG-augmented, emotion simulation-powered, multilingual version of Andrea in the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, once more in May 2025 for one week.
Robot videos
Robotics related videos of my work.
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Robot head KIM in Stuttgart
For three weeks in June 2025 we had the chance to let the visitors and inhabitants of Stuttgart try out one of our five android robot heads. We are supported by DATIpilot of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). More information on our project can be found here.
City library in Stuttgart
Tourist information center
Video of an interaction
Read more: KIM in Stuttgart 2025 - DATIpilot Projekt ANDREA (gefördert durch das BMFTR)
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Anfang 2026 wurden KIM und ich eingeladen, auf einer Bühne aufzutreten. Es war ein tolles Event!
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Robotic head Kim explained
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.
Read more: How our robot software works - Kim demonstrated and explained
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Andrea in the Mercedes Benz Museum in May 2025
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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Humanoid Lab at Stuttgart Media University (HdM)
Historical development of Androids and Andrea
Bachelor student project "Mimicry with android head", 01/2023
Public presentation of Andrea on 7th of December, 2022
Time-lapse video of the android arrival on October 5, 2022
German interview with me on October 5, 2022
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"MARCO @ UFreiburg":
In 2014 we started to build "MARCO", the Multimodal Autonomous RoboChess Opponent":
We demonstrated MARCO at ICMI2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, and won the Outstanding Demo Award. (Watch this video on youtube, if you like.)
In that configuration we realized:
- a few display movements
- emotional facial expressions driven by WASABI based on the evaluation of the board
- detection of and recovering from "invalid moves" by the human player (at least to some extend)
Next steps / improvements:
- change the display for a bigger one
- implement many more agent behaviors based on a newly invented animation framework
- finish integration of NOVA framework
- possibly integrate the IntraFace tracking software
- devise and conduct empirical studies
It can also be controlled from a remote place using the freechess.org server and any client. Thus, someone can play against me using the robot arm to move his or her pieces.
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"DARYL @ Freiburg City":
"Tele-operation in the wild": In Summer 2013 Severin Gustorff and I brought the mildly-humanized robot DARYL to Freiburg City.