NAO
A programmable humanoid robot from Aldebaran, now SoftBank Robotics. We use NAO as a classroom companion and research tool; its expressive movement, speech, and emotional cues make it well suited to human-robot interaction studies.
Pepper
Two SoftBank Pepper robots support human-robot interaction studies at the Western Michigan University and University of Connecticut labs. Pepper's expressive eyes and social presence make it useful for research on nonverbal cues, trust, and emotional perception.
Robot pets
Twenty-five robotic cats and dogs from Ageless Innovation help us study companionship, behavior, and emotional response in human-robot interaction.
gita
A cargo-carrying robot from Piaggio Fast Forward that follows alongside a person as they walk. We use gita to study how people coordinate movement with a following robot.
