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Responsible: Ben Goertzel (architecture); Mind Children (education robot); Hanson Robotics (expressive humanoids)
Papers: Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper (2025), §9.2
GitHub: ghost_bridge (ROS-GHOST bridge), ros-behavior-scripting (Eva robot control)
Status: Active pilot. Partnerships with Mind Children (education robot) and Hanson Robotics (Sophia, Desdemona). Legacy OpenCog ROS integration operational; Hyperon-native integration under development.
Humanoid social robotics provides a stress-test for PRIMUS: robots must combine perception, dialogue, motor control, and social norms seamlessly. The cognitive substrate must handle everything from "explain fractions to a third-grader" to "comfort an anxious student" to "perform on stage" — without requiring a complete rewrite for each scenario.
Partners
Mind Children — developing a 3.5-foot education robot for classroom interaction.
Hanson Robotics — creators of Sophia (world's first robot citizen) and Desdemona (robot performer), bringing expertise in expressive humanoid robots for public engagement.
Technical Architecture
The whitepaper describes a layered architecture: external audio/vision neural networks for initial perception, with progressive embedding of predictive coding layers inside via QuantiMORK for latency-critical paths (gaze estimation, lip-sync, gesture segmentation). Pattern Miner discovers conversational templates (adjacency pairs, tutoring frames) that Symbolic Heads retrieve during speech decoding, while PLN enforces persona and safety constraints. MetaMo budgets the balance between exploration and de-escalation behaviors.
Motor control keeps low-level servo loops on the robot while SubRep options cover higher-level skills ("look at face", "nod", "hand-wave"). Geodesic control aligns dialogue steps with motion options so physical gestures support conversational goals.
Legacy OpenCog infrastructure includes the ghost_bridge ROS package (connecting the GHOST chatbot system to robot hardware) and ros-behavior-scripting (Eva robot sensory input and motor control, production use 2015–2017).
Key References
Goertzel, B. (2025). Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper, §9.2: Humanoid Social Robotics
Papers: Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper (2025), §9.2
GitHub: ghost_bridge (ROS-GHOST bridge), ros-behavior-scripting (Eva robot control)
Status: Active pilot. Partnerships with Mind Children (education robot) and Hanson Robotics (Sophia, Desdemona). Legacy OpenCog ROS integration operational; Hyperon-native integration under development.
Humanoid social robotics provides a stress-test for PRIMUS: robots must combine perception, dialogue, motor control, and social norms seamlessly. The cognitive substrate must handle everything from "explain fractions to a third-grader" to "comfort an anxious student" to "perform on stage" — without requiring a complete rewrite for each scenario.
Partners
Mind Children — developing a 3.5-foot education robot for classroom interaction.
Hanson Robotics — creators of Sophia (world's first robot citizen) and Desdemona (robot performer), bringing expertise in expressive humanoid robots for public engagement.
Technical Architecture
The whitepaper describes a layered architecture: external audio/vision neural networks for initial perception, with progressive embedding of predictive coding layers inside via QuantiMORK for latency-critical paths (gaze estimation, lip-sync, gesture segmentation). Pattern Miner discovers conversational templates (adjacency pairs, tutoring frames) that Symbolic Heads retrieve during speech decoding, while PLN enforces persona and safety constraints. MetaMo budgets the balance between exploration and de-escalation behaviors.
Motor control keeps low-level servo loops on the robot while SubRep options cover higher-level skills ("look at face", "nod", "hand-wave"). Geodesic control aligns dialogue steps with motion options so physical gestures support conversational goals.
Legacy OpenCog infrastructure includes the ghost_bridge ROS package (connecting the GHOST chatbot system to robot hardware) and ros-behavior-scripting (Eva robot sensory input and motor control, production use 2015–2017).
Key References
Goertzel, B. (2025). Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper, §9.2: Humanoid Social Robotics