maHidaka/ros_face

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1355 stars · 64 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ROS-Face is a ROS-based system that controls human facial muscles via electrical stimulation, letting you drive facial expressions like a robot. It pairs a ROS1 (melodic) node with an Arduino Uno sketch uploaded via PlatformIO to actuate the hardware.

Use cases

• control human facial expressions with ROS
• drive facial muscles like a robot using rosserial
• build a joystick-controlled face stimulation demo
• experiment with human-machine interfaces using Arduino and ROS
• reproduce the ROS-Face demo on ROS melodic

When to choose

• you already run ROS1 (melodic) and want to control facial muscles through rosserial and Arduino
• you want a research/demo platform for electrically stimulating facial expressions
• you need an open BSD-licensed reference for ROS-to-Arduino muscle control

When to avoid

• you need a production or medically approved system - this is an at-your-own-risk experimental project
• you use ROS2 or non-melodic ROS versions without willingness to adapt the code
• you are not comfortable building custom electronics from the provided schematic

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

robotics embedded sdk robotics embedded-systems hardware python cpp embedded ros rosserial arduino facial-muscles human-machine-interface platformio linux

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