Entertainment Robots and Communication

Entertainment Robots

Recent entertainment robots created by Sar-cos Research Corporation and the Center for Engineering Design at the University of Utah are presented. Categories include humanoid and non-humanoid display robots that replay programmed motions, interactive robots that are teleoperated, and humanoid robots for research .

Entertainment Robots - Myth or Reality

This paper presents an overview of the current field of entertainment robotics based on experiences as spectator during the RoboCup 1999 and building an experimental entertainment robot based on the LEGO platform with digital color camera and various other sensors. RoboCat is a robot cat prototype that shows cat-like behaviour in the real-life environment of typical households. For behavioural ...

Human-Friendly Robots for Entertainment and Education

Even though the market size is still small at this moment, applications of robots are gradually spreading out from the manufacturing industrial environment to face other important challenges, like the support of an aging society and to educate the new generations. The development of human-friendly robots drives research that aims at autonomous or semi-autonomous robots that are natural and intu...

Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots

The research and development of various types of robots is actively being pursued, especially in Japan. It is expected that the Aichi EXPO robot shows and robot exhibitions would be one of the most popular shows. There are several reasons why there is a big boom for robots right now. One of these is that robots have physical bodies and because of this, communications between robots and human st...

Research Robots for Applications in AI, Teleoperation and Entertainment