'Heart' robot

[Dave]

http://www.heartrobot.org.uk/

This is something I worked on a while back. We were given a grant to develop a robotic puppet that could pick up on signals in its environment (rhythms, whether the robot is being jostled etc.,) and produce simple body language cues (finger twitching, racing pulse and so forth).

Some video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZ-4qQcQyk