Vyo is a social robot, designed as an empathic robotic assistant, that serves as a centralized interface to manage smart home devices. Interacting with Vyo combines several interaction paradigms, including the use of tangible physical icons (“phicons”), expressive physical gestures and screen feedback.
Communication between user and robot occurs via the use of “phicons”: the user places an icon – representing a device (dishwasher, heating, cooling etc.) – on the robots turntable to control or monitor it. Following this interaction, the robot responds expressively according to user’s’ action, displays feedback via the screen and fulfils the task given.
Collaboration between Milab IDC Herzliya / Cornell University / SK Telecom.
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
Benny Megidish, Computer Science student at IDC Herzliya
Daniel Kuvent, Computer Science student at IDC Herzliya
Lucy Anderson, Communications student at IDC Herzliya
