This
is the homepage of Moodles, a humanoid LEGO robot capable of displaying
several different emotional expressions.
Take the emotion sensor in your hand, and Moodles will mimic your true mood!
- Or it might tell you what kind of bureaucrat you are!
I built and programmed it in November 2008 for a movie production: It appears in the movie Raspberry Magic - click here to watch the trailer. See a behind-the-scenes gallery here; there's also a sort of diary from my movie making experience (in Danish).
Click here to watch a scene from the
movie (courtesy Raspberry Magic LCC). This is
a photo from behind the camera taken during the same scene as I'm
hiding behind a table on the floor while controlling the robot:
I modified and reprogrammed it to act as "greeter" for the museum guests for the exhibition Enter Action - Digital Art Now on display in the spring of 2009 in ARoS, one of the Denmark's major art museums. Find a small report and some images from the exhibition here.
In 2010/2011, Moodles was on display at an exhibition at the Danish museum Økolariet.
In 2011, Moodles acted as eye-catcher in our booth at the "HI-messe" in Herning.
In 2012, Moodles was featured in a robot exhibition at Experimentariet:
Also in 2012, Moodles was featured in a robot exhibition at Industrimuseet
In 2012, Moodles acted as a gimmick at the Innova 2012 conference in Copenhagen.
In this new version, it measures what kind of bureaucrat you are. See more here.
See
a bunch of images and video clips here - now
with clips and stills from Raspberry Magic! Or have
a look at the scrapbook of press coverage of
Moodles. Here is a small gallery of images from the building
process.
Click here to get to my other robot pages.
The participation of Moodles in the film Raspberry Magic was
realized as a joint project between Raspberry Magic LLC,
Alexandra Instituttet A/S and the Computer Science
Department, Aarhus University, Denmark