Ehsan Saffari

TL;DR: RoMa, a novel robotic mannequin that has been developed with the consideration of professional showcase characteristics and a primary feature of interaction with people, was able to attract customer attention from the viewpoints of anthropology, movements, and likeability.

TL;DR: This paper has designed and implemented a robotic head, “Ava”, which turns toward the speaker in noisy environments, and employs three different algorithms simultaneously for feature extraction and a two-layer perceptron neural network for localization.

TL;DR: RoMa, a full-body humanoid social robot platform, is currently in the final stages of development for visual merchandising to promote customer appeal and is characterized by nine features which are listed as appealing appearance, avoiding the uncanny valley, easy maintenance, interactive, light weight, low developmental cost and user friendly.

TL;DR: This paper endeavors to review popular movies containing Fictional Robots (FR) to extract the most common characteristics and interesting design ideas of robots portrayed in science fiction to extract a step toward more appropriate development of robotics and AI entities to be accepted by general users in the real world.

TL;DR: Characteristics such as the interaction of people with RoMa, the impact of using a social robot on the sustainability of a store’s brand name for customers, the desire to revisit the store for another purchase, and the robot's structural features were measured in a Tehran retail store.