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David
Hanson
is a doctoral student working in the Institute for Interactive Arts
and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas His
area of research investigates facial expression in robots using
recent breakthroughs in elastomer material sciences to enact a sizable
range of natural humanlike facial expressions. This branch of robotics
will rise in relevance as humans and robots begin to have more face-to-face
encounters in the coming years. David
recently presented his work on a facial robot at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science on February 17th. His presentation
was widely covered internationally:
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