Erica

Name: Erica
Rating: 3.3 (9011 reviews)

Erica, a highly realistic humanoid female robot with golden skin, almond shaped eyes, and shoulder length brown hair wears a black button up shirt and purple sweater. — A lifelike android. Photo: Osaka University/ATR

Erica is an advanced android designed as a research platform to study human-robot interaction. It understands natural language, has a synthesized human-like voice, and can display a variety of facial expressions.

Creators

Ishiguro Lab, Kyoto University, and ATR

Year

2015

Country

Japan 🇯🇵

Categories

Features

Erica loves to chat. Video: Osaka University/ATR

Did you know?

When Erica is listening, it blinks and moves its eyes and head, just like a person.

Hiroshi Ishiguro, a man with black hair, glasses and a black outfit looks at Erica, a female humanoid robot with golden skin, almond shaped eyes, and shoulder length brown hair. — Erica and its creator, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. Photo: Osaka University/ATR

A close-up of female robot Erica's face, which has smooth peach color skin, pink lips, brown almond shaped eyes, and brown hair. — Close-up of Erica's face. Photo: Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory/ATR

More Images

Female robot Erica wearing a new long bob hairstyle that is lighter brown while sitting in a brightly lit atrium with plants in the background. — Erica tries a new hairstyle. Photo: Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory/ATR

Specs

Overview: Natural dialogue and motion-generation capabilities. Ultrarealistic human-like appearance. Facial expressions and gesture motions.
Status: Inactive
Year: 2015
Website: eng.irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/robot
Height: 166 cm
Sensors: Two CMOS cameras and two microphones in the head
Actuators: 44 pneumatic actuators
Degrees of Freedom (DoF): 44 (Face: 13 DoF; Neck: 4 DoF; Arms: 9 DoF x 2; Torso: 3 DoF; Hands: 3 DoF x 2)
Materials: Silicone (face, arms, and hands)
Compute: Sensor network connected to multiple PCs. One PC to control actuators.
Software: ROS, Java, Python
Power: 0.7-MPa compressed air to drive the pneumatic actuators and 24-V DC power supply to control the valves