278261 external_news 1393005545 1475893619 Are we on the brink of a robotics revolution? That’s what numerous media outlets asked last December when Google acquired eight robotics companies that specialize in such innovations as manipulation, vision, and humanoid robots. Simon, a robot co-developed by Meka and robotics researchers at Georgia Tech, includes a Meka humanoid head with 13 degrees of freedom (DOF), including independently moving eyes and eyelids, movable ears, and a five-DOF neck, which replicates a human’s range of motion. It also conveys nonverbal cues through lifelike head motions, eye contact, and blinking.

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