Olivia

A white cylindrical robot which is wider at its black base has a display screen on its torso, two hands with five black fingers each, and a simple black and white face. A ring of purple light at its neck and the bottom of it's torso are glowing.
Olivia hears quite well with its 12 microphones. Photo: A*STAR Social Robotics Lab/Asoro

Olivia is a humanoid robot designed to test social robotics technologies. It's currently used as an office receptionist that can greet visitors and provide information.

Creator

A*STAR Social Robotics Lab

Year
2009
Country
Singapore 🇸🇬
Categories
Features
Olivia wants to be your friend. Video: IEEE Spectrum

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Appearance

Neutral

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Olivia's head appears to float over a ring of light.

Two children and their mom interact with the robot at a trade fair.
And it's a chatty robot. Photo: A*STAR Social Robotics Lab/Asoro
Close up of the robots face shows two eye cameras, and one on its forehead.
The robot sees well, too, with three cameras on its face. Photo: A*STAR Social Robotics Lab/Asoro

Specs

Overview

Capable of displaying emotions, including happiness and sadness. Equipped with speech recognition and synthesis and 3D sound localization.

Status

Inactive

Year

2009

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Width
65 cm
Height
160 cm
Length
85 cm
Weight
152 kg
Sensors

Point Grey Bumblebee stereo camera, DVN1501 camera, eight microphones for sound localization, four microphones for speech detection, Hokuyo URG-04LX laser range finder.

Actuators

Harmonic drive servo actuators

Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
26 (Neck: 2 DoF; Shoulder: 3 DoF x 2; Elbow: 1 DoF x 2; Wrist: 2 DoF x 2; Hand: 6 DoF x 2)
Materials

ABS plastic exterior

Compute

Intel 2.8 GHz Core i7 processor and 1.2 GHz Atom processor.

Software

Windows XP and Linux

Power

24-V 90-Ah lead-acid batteries