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BERT2 (Bristol Elumotion Robot Torso 2)
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BERT2

Bristol Elumotion Robot Torso 2

An upper-body humanoid with an expressive animated face, arms and fingered hands, used at Bristol Robotics Laboratory to study gaze, gestures and safe hand-overs between robots and people. Its hybrid expressive face was presented at IROS 2010, and it was later used in studies on robots that apologise for mistakes.

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Why it matters

A research humanoid from Bristol Robotics Laboratory (UWE Bristol and University of Bristol) with Elumotion.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2010-10
Released
Not yet
IROS 2010 paper on its expressive face (Taipei)

Public attention

How much public attention BERT2 (Bristol Elumotion Robot Torso 2) gets, from open data.

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Hands
dexterous
Movement
Stationary

From the maker

BERT2 (Bristol Elumotion Robot Torso 2) is the only humanoid from Bristol Robotics Laboratory (UWE Bristol and University of Bristol) with Elumotion in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
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How to get one
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Sources

Figures come from a published paper. Every link below backs something on this page.

University of Bristol Research Portal Design and Testing of Hybrid Expressive Face for the BERT2 Humanoid Robot (IROS 2010) arXiv A Corroborative Approach to Verification and Validation of Human-Robot Teams

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