The authors have developed a robot called “Robovie” that has unique mechanisms designed for communication with humans. Robovie can generate human‐like behaviors by using human‐like actuators and vision and audio sensors. Software is a key element in the systems development. Two important ideas in human‐robot communication through research from the viewpoint of cognitive science have been obtained – one is importance of physical expressions using the body and the other is the effectiveness of the robot’s autonomy in the robot’s utterance recognition by humans. Based on these psychological experiments, a new architecture that generates episode chains in interactions with humans is developed. The basic structure of the architecture is a network of situated modules. Each module consists of elemental behaviors to entrain humans and a behavior for communicating with humans.
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December 01 2001
Robovie: an interactive humanoid robot
Hiroshi Ishiguro;
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, and the Department of Computer and Sciences, Wakayama University, Sakaedani, Japan.
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Tetsuo Ono;
Tetsuo Ono
Tetsuo Ono is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
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Michita Imai;
Michita Imai
Michita Imai is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
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Takeshi Maeda;
Takeshi Maeda
Takeshi Maeda is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
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Takayuki Kanda;
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
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Ryohei Nakatsu
Ryohei Nakatsu
Ryohei Nakatsu is based at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Industrial Robot (2001) 28 (6): 498–504.
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Ishiguro H, Ono T, Imai M, Maeda T, Kanda T, Nakatsu R (2001), "Robovie: an interactive humanoid robot". Industrial Robot, Vol. 28 No. 6 pp. 498–504, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910110410051
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