Emo predicted a human smile about 840 milliseconds before it happened and simultaneously responded with one of its own (albeit looking rather creepy doing it).

Emo can predict a human smile 839 milliseconds before it happens. Play the video Play. By analyzing hundreds of videos, Emo learned how to predict facial expressions from human muscle movement.

Within just a few hours, Emo was capable of observing, interpreting, and responding to the little facial shifts people tend to make as they begin to smile. What’s more, it can now do so within ...

In a new study published today in Science Robotics, the group unveils Emo, a robot that anticipates facial expressions and executes them simultaneously with a human. It has even learned to predict a ...

If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab have ...