We were fortunate to see that a recent interview given with a local newspaper, the Cambridge News, was given a double page center spread with one of our images on the front page of the paper. Our technology is very “photogenic” and so easily attract attention.

Cambridge News web site Article (no images in web edition unfortunately)

October 1, 2009. The company grew today by 4 people who have been attracted to Emotion AI to work on our disruptive technology. Working on our core technology algorithms is a Cambridge University Masters graduate with a deep knowledge of math and computer science. Working on our upcoming SDK release for game and virtual world developers is an expert in real time character animation technologies with experience at Electronic Arts and Sony. Working on our next animation toolkit plug in, for Autodesk Maya, is a developer with a rare combination of coding skills and artistic skills, being also a skilled modeller.

Everyone is raring to get our products out to developers and artists starting in November.

September 23, 2009. We exhibited our technology today at the Cambridge Enterprise Conference amongst some of Cambridge’s hottest new technology start ups. We also pitched the gathered audience of business leaders with our vision of powering a billion digital characters with Emotion AI products.

Certainly the press found what we were doing very interesting and resulted in a number of newspaper, magazine and TV interviews, a selection of which are below:

Silicon.com article

Computer Weekly Article

Cambridge Network Article

September 11, 2009. Today we held a successful exhibit at the renowned ACII (Affective Computer and Intelligent Interaction) 2009 conference held in Amsterdam. Many in the research community told us that our technology was the best looking emotion visualization that they had seen to date. Keeping strong links with the research community is important to Emotion AI.

HCI2009

September 2, 2009. We had a great deal of interest generated at the prestigious HCI2009 exhibit held jointly by Microsoft Research and Cambridge University. See video clip here:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=446404 (17 seconds in)

September 2, 2009. Emotion AI was selected from over 500 applicants to pitch a number of world class investors and mentors at the Seedcamp final 40 selection stage. Held annually, Seedcamp attracts some of Europe’s most promising young start ups chosen from amongst those represented at the final 40 stage.

September 1, Emotion AI has been granted funding for research and development from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) for research and proof of concept development for socially interactive digital characters and avatars. The £100,000 project will show how using Emotion AI technology game, virtual world and simulation characters can be automated to interact both emotionally and socially. As an example avatars in a virtual meeting could pay attention to passing avatars, responding to known avatars appropriately, perhaps with a smile and a nod, just as we do in real life.