Meet the EmoPus: an octopus companion robot that provides you with emotional support. Users can talk to it by voice and tell it to complete simple tasks. This robot interacts with you based on your emotional state. It can offer comforting words too. EmoPus has a touch sensor, speaker, OLED screen and 24GHz mmWave sensor.
This AI companion robot can soothe your arm with its tentacles when you need someone to comfort you. Yixuan Li , Zhaowen Deng , and Yanying Zhu are behind this. The above video shows it in action.
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