MERTZ
MERTZ is an active vision head robot, designed for exploring scalable learning in a social context. Inspired by how human infants learn by observing and imitating other people, the robot may learn to correlate objects and people with frequently uttered phoneme sequences, differentiate among people and their interaction habits, learn to dislike some people who tend to annoy the robot, etc.
Mertz is about 25cm tall and weighs around 2kg. It has a total of 13 degrees of freedom, including individually actuated eyebrows and lips, and has two cameras for vision and a microphone. One of the main issues involved concerning the learning capabilities of the robot is how to interact with while simultaneously learning from a person. Another problem was the ambient noise level of the robot’s surroundings.
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