TheatreBot
TheatreBot
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| Short Description: | Aim of this project is to produce autonomous robots able to play on stage together with human actors, possibly improvising, or in any case facing the casualities occurring on the scene. |
| Coordinator: | AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it) |
| Tutor: | AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it) |
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| Students: | JulianMauricioAngelFernandez (julianmauricio.angel@polimi.it) |
| Research Area: | Robotics |
| Research Topic: | Robot development |
| Start: | 2013/01/12 |
| End: | 2016/12/31 |
| Status: | Active |
| Level: | PhD |
| Type: | Thesis |
Theatrebot is a system which allows a robot to be a theatre’s actor with the ability to interact naturally with humans and other robots autonomously.The system has the following components:
- Plot description: It is a graphical interface that allows the director’s play describes the actions that the robot must perform during the play. This description does not consist only in where to stand up and what to say, it also includes the emotions that robot must to show… This tool also provides some basic movements that could be edited for the user in order to personalise their experience.
- Language descriptor: this language allows saving the information made in the graphical interface, and it is the information that the robot will read.
- Work on going
Why Theatre?
Although theatre involves many elements, the main one is audience’s imagination making the difference among theatre, television and movies. Additionally, the performance of each play is made live, making each presentation unique and unrepeatable. Theatre’s actors have to embody characters that have its personal life, temper, and own way to express his self: voice intonation, words, and event movements. Thus, actors’ challenge is convince the spectators that the characters that they are portraying are real. As a consequence, actors must to learn how bring to life characters, which includes think about their personality, likes and dislikes, and most important how the character shows emotions through his movements. These movements must be coherent with the moves of the other characters and work in harmony to make the play be a successful.
