Novoneel Chakraborty
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About
Novoneel Chakraborty is a researcher working at the compelling intersection of robotics, design, and the performing arts, with a particular focus on expressive robotic systems and human-robot interaction. His work addresses a critical challenge in contemporary robotics: as robots increasingly move from industrial settings into everyday human environments, how should they move, behave, and communicate in ways that feel natural, trustworthy, and engaging? Chakraborty's most influential contributions draw from an unlikely but powerful source — choreography and somatic practice. His 2018 paper on choreographic and somatic approaches to expressive robotic design (29 citations) argues that movement quality, context, and style are central to how humans interpret robotic behavior. Complementing this, his methodology for abstracting character archetypes onto robotic systems (25 citations) offers designers a structured framework for cultivating likability, animacy, and trust in domestic robots. His work on "Dancing Droids" further demonstrates how choreographic practice can serve as a generative design laboratory for mobile robot expression. Collectively, Chakraborty's research opens a genuinely interdisciplinary dialogue between dance, embodied cognition, and robotics engineering — offering students and designers alike a richer vocabulary for thinking about how machines might meaningfully coexist with humans.
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