Marek A. Perkowski, theatre director.

PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE: INFORMATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL ROBOT BUILDERS.

HOW TO BUILD A ROBOT TALKING HEAD WITH FACIAL GESTURES

Here you will find the information how to build two types of heads that we are currently using in our theatre: the latex head and the wooden head (Hahoe).

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON BUILDING KAIST HAHOE ROBOT THEATRE

  1. Ideas about implementing dialogs with a robot head using machine learning. In PowerPoint format.
  2. Proposal about theatre of robot heads.

  3. Ideas about the ironic robot head, small part of them was implemented in Japan. Part 1.
  4. Part 2.
  5. Part 3.
  6. Part 4.

  7. Hahoe Robot Theatre: Part 1. Dialog of emotional korean robotic faces. Intelligent Learning Robot. Intelligent Talking Face robot. Speech and dialog programming. Programming dialogs. Mapping environment to behavior. Other similar speech projects.

  8. Hahoe Robot Theatre: Part 2. Dialog-based systems with intelligent robots. Goals of the Hahoe robot. Our Machine Learning technology to be used in Hahoe robot.

  9. Hahoe Robot Theatre: Part 3. Learning behaviors explained using simple logic of Breitenberg Vehicles and Karnaugh Maps. Application of the same methods to speech/dialog learning. Functional Decomposition. Open Research Areas.

  10. Hahoe Robot Theatre: Part 4. Original text of Hahoe Play.

  11. Hahoe Robot Theatre: Part 5. Explanation of historical background and all masks for Hahoe play.

INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE WHO BUILD LATEX ROBOT HEADS.

Latex-head robots will be used in "Faithful Robot" play and other musical performances of Portland Cyber Theatre. This is our new technology, much more sophisticated than Hahoe-type robots.

  1. How to build an advanced robot head. Part 1. Android Head Projects from 2002. Robot Heads of David Ng. Detailed Technical Drawings. Development stages for a head. Several prototypes of a female robot head from David Ng. Frequently asked questions. Other realistic well-known robot heads and bodies. Details of construction. Head internals. Construction of the eyes mechanisms.


Instructions how to assemble the robot head from recent David Ng kit.
  1. Short Instructions.
  2. Instructions. Part I. Sections 1 to 4.
  3. Instructions. Part II. Section 5.
  4. Instructions. Part III. Sections 6 and 7.1.
  5. Instructions. Part IV. Section 8.
  6. Instructions. Part V.
  7. Instructions. Part VI.
  8. Figures


  9. Robot skin installation. Part 1. In BMP format.
  10. Robot skin installation. Part 2. In BMP format.
  11. Robot skin installation. Part 3. In BMP format.
  12. Robot skin installation. Part 4. In BMP format.
  13. Robot skin installation. Part 5. In BMP format.