{"id":273,"date":"2014-04-18T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2014-04-21T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:47:42","slug":"about-more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/?page_id=273","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is HERB?<\/p>\n<p>HERB stands for Home Exploring Robot Butler. HERBS serves as the research platform of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/personalrobotics.ri.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Robotics Lab<\/a>, which is directed by Siddhartha Srinivasa, associate professor in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s Robotics Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HERB is a testbed for algorithms, software and other technology that will enable robots to perform challenging manipulation tasks in places where people live and work. HERB works on behalf of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/qolt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center<\/a>, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center dedicated to applying robotic and information technologies to the everyday lives of people.<\/p>\n<p>QoLT Center is jointly operated by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/3-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What is Bowtie?<\/p>\n<p>Bowtie is a semester project at the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center \u00a0that\u00a0is helping fulfill HERB\u2019s (Home Exploring Robotic Butler) dream of becoming an actor. Bowtie is designing expressful animations and a flexible and robust interface that enables his operators to manipulate various parameters of HERB\u2019s movement in real time to improvise and fine-tune his performance.\u00a0Bowtie is working closely with director Sam French to realize his directorial vision by iteratively improving HERB\u2019s interface in the months leading up to the performance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bowtie high end goal is to research and create a thought framework for the design and implementation of expressive animations for robots, which can highly improve the interaction between robots and humans. In a near future many tasks will be performed by robots and Bowtie goal is to set some a ground for the future research of systems that will enable those interactions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-309\" alt=\"IMG_1241\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1241-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1241-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/bowtie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1241-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is HERB? HERB stands for Home Exploring Robot Butler. 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