Chronicle of Higher Education discusses MPLab’s ITS research
Chronicle of Higher Education discusses research on facial expression recognition for ITS.
BBC Leading Edge Report on the RUBI project
Learning To Teach Project
Phsyorg.com feature on Jake Whitehill’s Project on Learning to Teach
Two very exciting low cost robots
MPLab GENKI-4K Dataset is released.
The GENKI-4K dataset, containing faces, and expression and pose labels, was released. Check out the GENKI-4K webpage for information on downloading it.
Josh Susskind’s Nature Neuroscience Article
Josh Susskind, an MPLab Alumni just published a Nature Neuroscience paper showing how expression of emotion enhances sensory acquisition. ( A link to the article is available at the MPlab’s Web Site).
Installation Problems
Adam White, from the University of Alberta reported problems compiling the Phidgets. Turned out the rubios.jar archive was outdated. Problem was solved when the more recent rubios.jar file was included in the distribution.
Public Release of RUBIOS 2.0
RUBIOS 2.0, the open source social robotics API developed as part of the RUBI project has been released for public use.
Click here to download.