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And he continue: "So actually we provide a kind of tools for a rehabilitation tool. Very simply to put near in front of them and they can train and they can work. They can play with their own face for recovering their ability to generate facial expression. First, this is a kind of what we can rely on with brain plasticity and still we don't know if this is the good way and best way. But looking at some other things like prothesis for legs, prothesis for arms, they are all designed for the same mission. So why not apply these technologies for the face. So we're getting the signals from the face and making the physical displacement of the face. This is the essence of the Robot Mask project. So much playfull and very much serious too".

Robot Mask:
"Our project is a robot mask. It is very simply and it is a device to make people smile. To make people smile there's many ways, but we took some physical ways. So we'd like to put this apparatus onto a persons head. It can physically control and maneuver a human's face. A very important thing is also that is not like to be controlled artificially, because there's a voluntary control that is doing that. So like the other devices we had developed it is simply a device to detect the smile".

"We can detect a smile. Because when you smile and when you use facial expression, your facial muscles will give some electrical signals which we can analyze in real time. So, we can develop such kind of the smile detection system. It is also possible to make others smile physically. So there's two devices on where two different people can make each other smile. These two devices in one means that you can control your right hand by using your left side".

"This is fun but it is very difficult for person to make some assymetrical face. So one part of you can smile but the other part can't smile, because it's very difficult".