Valerie (2005) by Anne Mundell and Reid Simmons, CMU. Valerie the Roboceptionist is the product of a collaboration between the Robotics Institute and the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Valerie the Roboceptionist is the most recent addition to Carnegie Mellon’s Social Robots Project. A permanent installation in the entranceway to Newell-Simon Hall, the robot combines useful functionality — giving directions, looking up weather forecasts, etc. —with an interesting and compelling character. … The character we have designed, named Valerie, is built from a mobile base with a moving flat-panel monitor mounted on top, which displays a graphical human-like face." – Designing Robots for Long-Term Social Interaction, Rachel Gockley et al.
