FHNW RoboLab - Mapping Robot’s Body Language to Its Speech

Abstract

Humanoid robots are becoming more common in the business world. NAO is an example of a robot that uses voice and body language to interact with other humans, as a person would. In a previous project, NAO’s speech capabilities were enhanced with an external speech system. However, so far, the robot has not performed any gestures while using the external system. The objective of the project is to map NAO’s native animations according to its speech, also when the enhanced speech system is used.