Kip is a personal evoking robot designed as an empathy object. The robot’s function is to increase people’s awareness to the effect of their behavior towards others, potentially leading to behavior change through physical gestures. Kip has several roles, he serves as a robotic conversation companion that listens to people’s conversation tone and reacts to them and helps in balancing multiple speakers’ conversation by gazing towards the speaker, in order to maintain civilized discussion. One of the ways Kip would be able to evoke empathy is by seeming fragile itself.
People involved in the project:
Dr. Oren Zuckerman, Founder and Co-Director of the Media Innovation Lab (miLAB)
Dr. Guy Hoffman, miLAB Co-Director
Dr. Yaron Shlomi, Lab Research Manager
Shlomi Azulay, Research & Industrial Designer
Yahav Emsalem, Computer Science student at IDC Herzliya
Adi Feiner, Computer Science student at IDC Herzliya
Danielle Rifinski, Communications student at IDC Herzliya
