Movie Magic Makes Better Social Robots: The Overlap of Special Effects and Character Robot Engineering

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Abstract

This essay provides a perspective on the ongoing convergence of social robots and special effects, animation, animatronics, puppetry techniques, and other entertainment technologies. In this paper, I will address the following design concepts: - Character robot design principles and concepts - Fully realized Character robots as Slaves, as a term and social artifact - The implementation of particular special effect techniques I abstract robots into six categories and focus the discussion on one of these: The Companion type. I suggest that this type of robot might benefit from being what I call a Character robot, achieving this status by possessing the following four traits: 1) Biological in its appearance 2) Clear and simple in its expression 3) Well-animated 4) Recognizable in its personality

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Scherer, D. C. (2014). Movie Magic Makes Better Social Robots: The Overlap of Special Effects and Character Robot Engineering. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 3(1), 123. https://doi.org/10.5898/jhri.3.1.scherer

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