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Alpha

 
Alpha presenting its frieds at the Wissenschaftsmarkt (science days) 2005 in Freiburg. In order to direct the attention of its communication partners towards exhibits, Alpha performs gestures with its eyes and arms.
Alpha's head was presented at the RoboCup German Open 2005 in Paderborn.
Multimodal communication (attention control, facial expression, speech recognition and synthesis, speaker localization) between two persons and Alpha's head.
Different facial expressions are used to express Alpha's mood.
Alpha's head with 16 DOFs:

3 for the eyes
3 for the neck
4 for the eye brows
6 for the mouth