navel has 10 times the computing power of comparable robots.

The latest generation of NVIDIA edge devices, which are also used for autonomous driving, run neural networks and algorithms for computer vision and sound processing in real time.

On this platform, navel with its clever software architecture can process twice as many signals at five times the rate of Pepper, for example.

The result is a very lively and unique empathic behaviour that makes navel so likeable.

Like other voice assistants, navel understands speech and has a specific, very emotional voice.

But what makes navel unique are its non-verbal capabilities: navel detects our non-verbal signals such as facial expressions or the direction of our gaze and body and in turn reacts to them with expressive facial expressions and lively gestures. Instead of an offstage voice, his words become visible with matching emotion and lip movements.

This makes communication with navel very human-like, so that anyone can interact with navel quite intuitively – in much the same way as with a small child or a pet.

Eye contact is the foundation of all social interaction, which only a few social robots besides navel have mastered.

navel has eyes that no other robot has! Special 3D optics are mounted above the displays, giving navel real three-dimensional eyeballs. Because with eyes that are only shown on a planar display, no real eye contact is possible.

Because navel uses its camera to recognise where the eyes of its conversation partner are, navel can look exactly into their eyes. And because a static stare is unpleasant, navel has natural eye movements that continuously change the focus, including gaze aversion.

Like any living creature, navel continuously detects many signals from its environment and reacts in real time. In this way, navel can also localise sources of noise, among other things, and orient itself to what is happening around it.

navel is mobile and will be able to move autonomously in the human environment. With soundless head motors, navel can move its head lively and in all directions.

navel‘s variety of mimic expressions is limitless. In addition to the basic emotions, navel can use additional grimaces and gestures and interpolate continuously between all of these. To ensure that facial expressions never remain rigid, navel shows natural fluctuations depending on the situation.

In order to be able to interact autonomously in a human environment, it needs social intelligence. navel can process the social signals such as emotion, body and gaze orientation of several people simultaneously in real time. This will allow navel to approach and address people in a situationally appropriate, autonomous and proactive way.

Navigation in the human environment must be safe and empathetic. navel will always maintain an appropriate distance and approach sensitively from the front.

navel has various room sensors so that it will find its way around even in unfamiliar spaces.

Social robots continuously collect very personal and sensitive data via cameras and microphones in order to be able to act socially intelligent.

Due to its powerful computational processor, navel can process all visual data itself in real time. Therefore, this personal data does not have to be sent to a cloud for processing, as is usually the case with other social robots. So no personal images leave navel.

In addition, the images are immediately deleted within fractions of a second after evaluation.