{"id":509,"date":"2024-04-17T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:48:01","slug":"emotive-robotics-expressive-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/emotive-robotics-expressive-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotive Robotics &#8211; Expressive Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s project is making &#8220;expressive&#8221; eyes. Eyes can serve dual functions: in addition to observing the world around you, in many animals they also serve to express interest or other emotions. In this project I am focusing on the latter, the expressive purpose of eyes. I want to see how lights, time, and form can work together to evoke anthropomorphic reactions in human observers and mimic emotions such as joy, lethargy, or surprise! Along the way, I&#8217;m sure that I will encounter various technical challenges that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll enjoy working through. For now, I&#8217;m referring to the greater enterprise of robots that interact with humans to spark emotional reaction or compassion as &#8220;Emotive Robotics.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"984\" data-attachment-id=\"510\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/emotive-robotics-expressive-eyes\/img_2025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1191,1145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1713272522&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.018518518518519&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-300x288.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-1024x984.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-1024x984.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-1024x984.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-300x288.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025-768x738.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025.jpeg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried to make the above seem all high-brow, but just I&#8217;m warming up my 3D printer for a summer of robotics fun. This could be the first step towards something bigger or just a fun little exercise that ends up a one-off. Who knows! One direction I could see this going is creating little circus buddies who I could interact with to create human-robotic performances that wow both circus audiences and robotic experts as well. Could robots be clowning, tight-rope walking, juggling, trapeze? I would also like to collaborate with other circus performers and designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleepy Searching Eye - First Draft\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XDDsM_fwlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s project is making &#8220;expressive&#8221; eyes. Eyes can serve dual functions: in addition to observing the world around you, in many animals they also serve to express interest or other emotions. In this project I am focusing on the latter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/emotive-robotics-expressive-eyes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,6,80,78,10],"tags":[105,91,106,92],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-projects","category-robotics","category-sculpture","category-toys","tag-adafruit","tag-arduino","tag-emotiverobotics","tag-robotics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2025.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VqWo-8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}