Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot
This provides an accessible tool for human-robot interaction researchers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing platform designs.
The paper tackles the problem of limited hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics by presenting Quori, an affordable humanoid robot designed based on community feedback, which has been deployed and awarded to ten researchers to build a community database.
Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. This paper presents the overall system -- design, hardware, and software -- for Quori, a novel, affordable, socially interactive humanoid robot platform for facilitating non-contact human-robot interaction (HRI) research. The design of the system is motivated by feedback sampled from the HRI research community. The overall design maintains a balance of affordability and functionality. Initial Quori testing and a six-month deployment are presented. Ten Quori platforms have been awarded to a diverse group of researchers from across the United States to facilitate HRI research to build a community database from a common platform.