For this project, I am interested in exploring human movement and interactions by programming a UR5 to mimic/mirror a person.
This is a UR5 Robot:
(Very cute right?)
I am interested in exploring this for two reasons:
- I think the performance is inherently a timed experience, exploring the interaction between a human and a robot through mimicry is an interesting approach to the idea of “A Person In Time”.
- I want to learn how to work well with the UR5 and explore the ways in which a human can perform/otherwise collaborate with a robot.
Functionally, the UR5 will detect a person’s face using a wide lens camera and center its field of view to the person’s head, attempting to move as close as possible to them. So that if the person moves down, or to the side, the robot looks at them as they move, with it’s joint paralleling the human’s motion.