Clodéric Mars @cloderic.com · Feb 19

📝 Notes on “ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robots” Apple researchers just dropped a paper on robot expressiveness, testing how adding expressive movements affects human perception. Their user study confirms that people engage more with expressive robots.

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Clodéric Mars · Feb 19

Cool stuff, but I have some notes 😉 They focus heavily on expressiveness metrics without really considering efficiency or utility. Also, the study relies on pre-recorded videos, which could introduce bias from the human actor. Full breakdown & thoughts here: www.cloderic.com/content/2025...