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ROBOTS WITH HUMAN FACES TO REVOLUTIONIZE TELEPRESENCE
Projection techniques are being used to give robots human faces in an application that has the potential to dramatically change telepresence experiences. Researchers in Munich have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop a system that projects a 3D image of a face onto the back of plastic mask. A computer controls voice and facial expressions to create Mask-bot, a human-like plastic head.
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