Expressive interaction design is the missing layer in robotics. The future isn’t just functional robots - it’s robots that feel natural to use and are designed from the ground up for expressive human-robot interaction.

We will continue iterating Le Lamp to make it expressive and useful in the upcoming weeks.

our github: https://github.com/humancomputerlab/LeLamp/

community: https://discord.gg/wVF99EtRzg

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Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot

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