Entertainment robot gets H2020 backing
Academics at the UK’s Heriot Watt University that will help to develop a humanoid robot have secured €900,000 of funding from Horizon 2020 over four years. Professor Oliver Lemon and his team in the Interaction Lab in Edinburgh will assist in the development of the MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot that will be able to engage and interact autonomously and naturally in the dynamic environment of a shopping centre, providing an engaging and entertaining experience to the public. The robot will follow-on from the work the team previously carried out on socially intelligent robot communication in the FP7 ‘Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems’, or JAMES, project.