https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/w/documents/9070/meka-robotics-talks-up-its-anime-style-expressive-headen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/w/documents/9070/meka-robotics-talks-up-its-anime-style-expressive-headFri, 08 Oct 2021 04:05:03 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:c5581acf-894f-47fa-983a-d95baa62e8b7squadMCUhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/w/documents/9070/meka-robotics-talks-up-its-anime-style-expressive-head#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Documents by squadMCU on 10/8/2021 4:05:03 AM<br /> <p style="margin:0;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:1em;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;"><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/meka-robotics-announces-mobile-manipulator-with-kinect-and-ros" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:12px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;color:#355491;text-decoration:none;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;">Meka Robotics</a> is based in San Francisco, which is lucky for us, since that made it pretty much impossible for them to <em style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:12px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;">not </em>show up at IROS. They&#39;re probably best known for their underactuated, compliant hand (and the arm that goes with it) and more recently for their humanoid head. The S2 head is notable because it manages to maintain a high degree of expressiveness (those eyes are amazing) while entirely avoiding the Uncanny Valley effect, thanks to its vaguely cartoonish look. We asked Meka&#39;s co-founder, Aaron Edsinger to take us through it:</p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:1em;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;"></p><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj8ixExf7k">www.youtube.com/watch</a></span><p style="margin:0;"></p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:1em;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:12px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;">Keep reading on<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/interview-meka-robotics-talks-up-its-animestyle-expressive-he" style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-color:transparent;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:12px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:initial;list-style-image:initial;color:#355491;text-decoration:none;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px initial initial;"> IEEE SPECTRUM</a></strong></p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: meka, robotics, IROS</div>