CoCoMaps – Teaming up with the Robots
The start of the CoCoMaps project on 1 September 2016 is drawing near – here is a link to a great introduction article by IIIM:
CoCoMaps – Teaming up with the Robots
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CoCoMaps at the Hannover Messe 2017
The CoCoMaps team is in Hannover demonstrating our turn-taking technology for robot-human natural conversations. You can find us in Hall 17 at the ECHORD stand C70. We are here with three other cool robotics projects and attracting a lot of attention.
CoCoMaps at CES 2017
The CoCoMaps team is networking at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, meeting up with a number of potential vendors, partners and customers.
How Would Siri, Google Assistant Improve With Better Turntaking?
Although Siri can be quite helpful and at times pleasant to communicate with she still lacks the flexibility of a human duologue partner making conversing with her have an unnatural flow. In fact Siri – like other robots – is lacking in her turn taking ability. To communicate somewhat smoothly with robots one needs to…
CoCoMaps Platform v1.0.90 Released
We have today released all the open source parts of the CoCoMaps project. Please visit the download page for viewing it. Do remember that the project runs inside the Psyclone Platform, so you will need this as well from, it can be downloaded here.
Planning the first demo
The CCMCatalog is almost done and can handle the sharing and negotiation of observations and tasks between the two robots. Face detection has gone in and the new body and legs detector is being tested now. Basic navigation is working now and we are working on the operator interface in the PsyProbe web interface.
What is Turntaking in Dialogue?
In most typical dialogue, humans use turntaking naturally – one person waits for a natural break in the other person’s dialogue to start speaking or answering the other. Computers and robots, however, are not great at this – generally, they are actually very bad, as we have all experienced when calling a phone-based automatic speech…