What kind of robots does an animator / jazz musician / roboticist make? Playful, reactive, curious ones. Guy Hoffman shows demo film of his family of unusual robots -- including two musical bots that like to jam with humans. Filmed at TEDxJaffa in 2013.
Hoffman is now an assistant professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. He leads the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship (HRC^2) Lab.