Victor Nikhil Antony
Human-centered roboticist building useful, scalable embodied AI.
Work
Grouped by practice.
Robots
Embodied systems, objects, and companion forms.
Home AI
Embodied storytelling for early language development at home.
A generative social robot for early language development at home, designed with families and evaluated through in-home deployment.
Robotic Objects
A low-cost robotic object for ambient social presence.
A low-cost robotic object platform for ambient social presence, built to be replicated and adapted beyond the lab.
Embodied Reflection
A plant-like robot for quieter, less judgmental self-reflection.
A speculative yet grounded robotic form exploring how non-anthropomorphic companions can support emotional reflection.
Companion Robot
A social robot project exploring a more intimate companion presence.
An external project site for M, focused on a distinct robot identity and companion experience.
Designing With End Users
Participatory and long-horizon work with real people and routines.
Healthy Aging
Designing robot exercise partners with and for older adults.
A design-research project on robot exercise partners, from participatory co-design through in-home deployment.
New Form Factors
Wearable robotic companionship designed with older adults.
Co-designing wearable robotic companions with older adults to rethink where robots live and how they move with us.
Voice + Health
Designing voice assistants for and with older adults managing health routines.
A participatory design project on voice assistants for health self-management, focused on older adults’ needs, trust, and daily practices.
End-User Interfaces
Interfaces that make complex systems more usable, expressive, or creative.
Creative Tools
Co-creating visual stories with generative AI.
A generative storytelling system for co-creating visual stories with children in ways that preserve agency and imagination.
Tooling
Natural-language robot programming for end users.
LLM-aided end-user development for robots, turning natural language into executable robot programs.
Technical
Core systems work in conversational intelligence, expressivity, and robustness.
Expressivity
Context-aware facial expression generation for social robots.
Dynamic robot facial expressions generated from interaction context and validated across storytelling and real-time dialogue.
Conversation Systems
Helping conversational robots respond more naturally.
A real-time system that detects interruption intent and helps conversational robots respond more like skilled human speakers.