ers said. But with infants or toddlers, an emphasis on motion may aid early childhood detection.
During the first two years of life, language is a small part of a person, Bugnariu said. Children move first, then speech comes. We cant wait until they use speech. We need to determine sooner who has autism.
Popa has worked with Hanson Robotics since 2005 when company founder David Hanson first visited UT Arlingtons Robotics Institute in Fort Worth.
Popa said Hanson wanted to make the robot more humanlike, take the robot out of the lab and into the home. He said his team got the initial robot from Hanson but then embedded a new, more performance-controlled system into the robot.
That way, you can adapt the robot behavior to do anything you want, Popa said.
Popa said Zeno may incorporate responsive cameras in the robots eyes, similar to the technology in game systems like the Microsofts Xbox Kinect. Robots with vision tools could record a childs movements and mimic behavior.
He said robot hardware based on Texas Instruments chips and cameras can be used to fashion the future control and perception system for the robot to record movement from an autistic child.