The CR Lab facilitates a number of robotics research projects. Our projects are diverse and span a range of applications and technologies. We are always looking for new opportunities to collaborate and expand our research network. If you are interested in partnering with us, please get in touch.
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The Uncanny Effect of Speech – The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions
Janie Busby Grant, Damith Herath
🔴 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023
Abstract This study explores the impact of appearance and speech on human perceptions of faces in human-robot interactions. Three videos were generated depicting the real face of an artist and two virtual versions of the same artist, with increasing resolution and fidelity. Each video was presented with and without speech, with matching levels of fidelity…
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Synthetic Operating Room Table (SORT) Dataset
🔴 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022
Abstract This project focuses on the development of the Synthetic Operating Room Table (SORT) Dataset, designed to support research in medical robotics and surgical automation. The dataset provides synthetic data for training and evaluating robotic systems in operating room environments, addressing the critical need for high-quality training data in medical robotics applications. The SORT dataset…
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Arts + Health – New Approaches to Arts and Robots in Health Care
Janie Busby Grant, Damith Herath
🔴 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020
Abstract We describe the implementation and evaluation of a public interactive robotic art installation in a rehabilitation hospital. The project had two goals; to provide an enjoyable and novel artistic experience for the hospital community, and to better understand how human-centred robotics, particularly a receptive-focused intervention, might promote wellbeing and quality of life for members…
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To Embody or Not – A Cross Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interaction Study on the Efficacy of Physical Embodiment
Janie Busby Grant, Damith Herath
🔴 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2020
Abstract A plethora of commercial social robots and social robotics startups have risen over the last few years. At a cursory glance, most such robots are merely conversational agents, essentially offering a similar or subset of the capabilities of a smart communication device embodied in a mobile/semi-mobile robotic platform. This raises the question of the…
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RAPP Lab: A Living Laboratory Exploring Human-Robot Performance
Maleen Jayasuriya, Damith Herath
🟢 1 January 2017 – Ongoing
Abstract The Robots, Art, People and Performance Laboratory (RAPP Lab) is conceived as a living laboratory that functions as an experimental sandbox where roboticists and artists converge to explore the untapped possibilities of human-robot interaction through the lens of performance. Born from a spirit of curiosity, experimentation and play, this unique collaborative workshop space has…
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Recyclops
🟢 – Ongoing
Recyclops Motivation Textile waste is a destructive force on this globe, every day now we seem to see various news stories on how clothing waste and development causes more and more ecological damage. Problems with disposal, wastewater generation, and others are devastating to the environment (I would go through these videos/resources with your team. Basically…