Queen’s University’s School of Computing in Ontario, Canada seems like one of the funnest places to earn a degree. Every year, students put on an expo titled Creative Computing: Arts, Games, and Research, in which undergraduate and graduate students display their exciting projects. Live, hands-on demonstrations provide the local community with up close and personal opportunities to see what these young, creative minds are coming up with. This year, one such project was GoonQuad, a 3D-printed, emotive quadruped robot.
With the help of Antoino Gomes and Paul Strohmeier, undergraduates Lauren Abramsky,
Kristy Titanic and Jesse Shaw set about creating a simple robot capable of expressing emotion. They planned to model their machine after an organism found in nature, choosing the starfish for its simple anatomy.…
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