Robots Now Understands Human Body Language

Researchers have developed a computer code that could help robots understand body poses and movements, allowing them to perceive what people around them are doing, their moods and whether they can be interrupted. “We communicate almost as much with the movement of our bodies as we do with our voice,” said Yaser Sheikh, Associate Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “But computers are more or less blind to it,” Prof. Sheikh said, adding that the new methods for tracking 2D human form and motion open up new ways for people and machines to interact with each other, and for people to use machines to better understand the world around them.

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The computer code was developed with the help of the university’s Panoptic Studio, a two-storey dome embedded with 500 video cameras. . The researchers will present reports on their methods at a conference in Honolulu later this month.