‘Romibo’ The Robot Gives Therapy For Kids - Carnegie Mellon & Origami Robotics
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Origami Robotics have created a social robot named 'Romibo' designed for fun, education and therapy using the AuRoRa Project’s open source robotic platform. The speciality of Romibo is that it responses to its surroundings and conveys emotions. It has been specially built seeing the needs of kids but as the platform is open-source there is a potential of it being used in other education projects also by the end of this year. Currently ‘Romibo’ is a DIY project as it saves the cost for parents along with urging the users to develop their own experiences.
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Romibo Robot Project
According to ‘Romibo’, the DIY component can easily be assembled by small children and parents for education and creative play. The design of the component is such that production costs can be reduced along with making it popular among all age-groups. Romibos are simple in design as they are made up of are just fabric and moving eyes. They don’t have basic features like mouths and ears to avoid visually challenged children. ‘Eyes’ play a major role in the therapy as the robots respond by moving their eyes as soon as it's sensors pick up movements and sounds produced by children. For example, Romibo acts as if it's hurt whenever it is pushed away or yelled at.  The team hopes to see ‘Romibo’ growing in a development community in which other users will be sharing their own designs and experiences which could be used in future projects.
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Romibo Robot Project
According to ‘Romibo’, the DIY component can easily be assembled by small children and parents for education and creative play. The design of the component is such that production costs can be reduced along with making it popular among all age-groups. Romibos are simple in design as they are made up of are just fabric and moving eyes. They don’t have basic features like mouths and ears to avoid visually challenged children. ‘Eyes’ play a major role in the therapy as the robots respond by moving their eyes as soon as it's sensors pick up movements and sounds produced by children. For example, Romibo acts as if it's hurt whenever it is pushed away or yelled at.  The team hopes to see ‘Romibo’ growing in a development community in which other users will be sharing their own designs and experiences which could be used in future projects.
Watch Romibo in action here -
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