Emotional BWI Segway Robot

1. Abstract The Building-Wide Intelligence Project’s Segway Robot lacked emotions and personality critical in human-robot interaction. In order to make interactions with the robot more human-like and enjoyable, we attempt to give the robot a sense of emotions and personality. The robot is given the ability to keep track of its mood level and to present its current emotion state. By giving the robot emotions and personality we create a system in which humans need to be mindful of the robot’s emotions when interacting with them, just like any human-to-human interactions in the real world. When robots are perceived by humans as sentient, introspective beings that must be treated with care, we have taken a step further into developing machines that exhibits intelligence.