Roboscopie: A Theatre Performance for a Human and a Robot

Séverin Lemaignan (1, 2) , Mamoun Gharbi (1) , Jim Mainprice (1) , Matthieu Herrb (1) , Rachid Alami (1)

1 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes
2 Intelligent Autonomous Systems

On the 14th of October 2011, we performed for a general public audience (over 300 persons) a 18 min long live theatre play, acted by professional actor Xavier Brossard and the LAAS/CNRS PR2 robot. The play was created and directed by Nicolas Darrot, a mixed-media artist from Paris. The PR2 has been programmed in a 2-months course, reusing several software components developed at LAAS/CNRS, including the 3D environment for situation assessment SPARK, the ontology-based knowledge base ORO and the natural-language processor Dialogs. This video abstract presents the storyline of the play, and underlines some of the significant outcome for the human-robot interaction community. The full-length version of the video, along with downloads of the open-source components, is available from www.laas.fr/roboscopie.

Mots clés: theatre; human-robot interaction; performance

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Séverin Lemaignan, Mamoun Gharbi, Jim Mainprice, Matthieu Herrb, Rachid Alami. Roboscopie: A Theatre Performance for a Human and a Robot. Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI 2012), Mar 2012, Boston, United States. pp.1. ⟨hal-00667021⟩