A smart speaker equipped with self-deploying microphones that can zone in on individual speech patterns and locations, thanks to some clever algorithms. Robotic ‘Acoustic Swarms’ ...

Robot Raconteur Generic Microphone Driver The Robot Raconteur Generic Microphone Driver provides a Robot Raconteur service for generic system microphones based on the Python sounddevice package. This ...

In this paper we present a method for detecting and localizing an active speaker, i.e., a speaker that emits a sound, through the fusion between visual reconstruction with a stereoscopic camera pair ...

This paper presents a text-independent speaker identification system using multiple microphones on the robot, which is intended for use in human-robot interaction. For the purpose of the best possible ...

TE says that R is “the world’s first emotional 6-axis life form,” but that probably doesn’t clear things up for you. You might prefer to think of it as a ‘dancing robot speaker’ - it’s loaded with ...

Imagine you're using a VR headset and as a car races past, you hear it whip from left to right. Only the sound literally moves from left to right because it's coming from a robotic speaker that ...

SonicBoom: New tech helps robotic arm sense, navigate obstacles through sound Touching a branch causes sound waves to move down the robot’s arm. Updated: Jul 04, 2025 04:18 AM EST ...

As a remedy for this, Harman is looking to map VR soundscapes to robotic speakers, and then move them around in a room. According to the patent, this could reproduce a wide range of acoustic ...