BeatBots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Graphical depiction of the BeatBots project
BeatBots
Project Head: Marek Piotr Michalowski

Human social interaction involves the temporal coordination of rhythmic communicative behaviors. BeatBots is a project to develop technologies and methodologies for human-robot interaction that incorporate the rhythmic properties of human interactive behavior. We are developing small nonverbal robots capable of participating in dance-oriented play with children. Our architecture enables the robots to perceive and generate rhythms, with the goal of intelligently using these rhythms to anticipate and guide changes in dynamic, compelling interactions.

Displaying 7 Publications

2010
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-19, Robotics Institute, May, 2010
2009
Hideki Kozima, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Cocoro Nakagawa
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
2008
2007
Hideki Kozima and Marek Piotr Michalowski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC '07), October, 2007
Marek Piotr Michalowski and Hideki Kozima
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '07), pp. 95 - 100, August, 2007
Marek Piotr Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and H. Kozima
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '07), pp. 89 - 96, March, 2007
2006
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 587 - 592, September, 2006