Aisoy Robotics designs emotional personal robots to make people’s life fun and easy. The company aims at creating robots that can sense, perceive, evolve emotionally, and have human-like, natural communication with the users.
Located in Milan, Hospitale San Raffaele is an innovative clinical and diagnostic center that is involved in the ALIZ-E project, which aims at developing robots that can help people improve their communication skills.
Emerging from the fusion of various institutes, the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies is involved in the technological transfer, research training activities and enhancement in a number of scientific areas.
Hitachi developed an audio-visual prototype called AV Mascot Robot. It interacts with humans, analyzes one's TV viewing history, and recommends programs for better viewing experience.
BARTHOC is a robot that learns through communicating with humans. Its functions are not preprogrammed; it picks up and executes instructions through robot-human interaction.
HITACHI developed a two-wheeled humanoid called EMIEW. It helps people in their daily activities, has obstacle sensors to avoid obstacles, and can engage in a conversation.
University of UAE created an interactive robot called Sarah the Facebot. It can connect to Facebook, retrieve statuses and information, and interact with people using shared memories.
The MIT Media Lab robot Gandalf excels in real-time conversation with humans. Capable of normal-sounding speech and movement, Gandalf can answer many astronomy questions.
