Breaking news can wait. The robot is dancing.
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Argues that a public robot is instrumented not for news collection but for affect data, explicitly logging captures applause, smiles and gaze via cameras and microphones and saving to local storage for immediate playback. Shows a working prototype built from commodity servos and open-source robotics middleware, runs on ROS and commodity servos, deployed at ConsensusHK with audience laughter as live validation and a reported ~10% uptick in crowd retention during demos.
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