Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea has developed a robot with four human senses such as seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling as interactive modalities. Named POMI (Penguin rObot for Multimodal Interaction), the robot can move the eyebrow, eye lid, eye ball and lips. It plus uses various colors and formats of LED lights to show face expressions. As the robot has soft arms, its arm gestures are pretty natural and safe to humans. Robot POMI has two kinds of built-in scent sprays to express

happiness, sadness, and joy. It additionally has a heartbeat device which makes citizens feel like the robot’s heart really beats up when they put the hands on the left chest of the robot. It plus can talk to society, short answers in most cases, through a built-in speaker.

Other features making the robot more human-like is laser sensor, side/rear sensor, light sensor, object sensor to recognize and track folks. The robot has Polaroid camera, and projector that can be used for movie play.

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