Interactions of a humanoid with a human are important, when the humanoid is requested to provide people with human-friendly services in unknown or uncertain environment. Such interactions may require more complicated and human-like behaviors from the humanoid. In this work the arm motion of a human is discussed as the early stage of human motion imitation by a humanoid. A motion capture system ...

Interactions of a humanoid with a human are important, when the humanoid is requested to provide people with human-friendly services in unknown or uncertain environment. Such interactions may require more complicated and human-like behaviors from the humanoid. In this work the arm motions of a human are discussed as the early stage of human motion imitation by a humanoid. A motion capture syste...

With the development of human-like robotic technologies, robots have been advanced to sense and recognize objects, which is one branch artificial intelligence mimic human reactions. Although high-performance computer technologies are used, ability object recognition by touch still low due lack proper sensors. Therefore, this research studied learning system through robot touches developing an s...

It is difficult to generate the action of stably pinching paper or needle, etc. with the finger tips, which is one of the important functions to be realized by humanoid robot hands. In this paper, therefore, the authors firstly propose a small-sized and light-weight robotic hand designed according to the concept of extracting required minimum motor functions and implementing them to the robot, ...

Humanoid robot walks by a pair of legs and works using two hands. About this humanoid robot, authors investigate about the possibility of its application to various works on site. Investigation is conducted by the following three methods. The first one is an investigation of matching the demand function of the latest work on the construction site with the performance which a humanoid robot hold...

Researches on humanoid robots have become more and more active in various fields. One of the purposes is to construct a coexistent and cooperative society between humanoid robots and human. The body of humanoid robots is similar to human beings enabling them to walk with a pair of legs and to work with their hands. Therefore, humanoid robots have advantages to work in human environment. So, res...

For the purpose of realizing the humanoid robot walking on uneven terrain, this paper proposes the kinodynamic gait planning method where both kinematics and dynamics of the system are considered. We can simultaneously plan both the foot-place and the wholebody motion taking the dynamical balance of the robot into consideration. As a dynamic constraint, we consider the differential equation of ...

The present study aimed to satisfy a twofold purpose: On the one hand, it sought to verify the postulation that agent-based instruction could offer a compromise approach to teaching L2 idioms where form and meaning would be equally emphasized during instruction. Given that anthropomorphism has not been much under scrutiny, this research, on the other hand, sought to ascertain whether learning a...

We focus on grasp planning for a humanoid multi-fingered hand attached at the tip of a humanoid robot’s arm. The hand has potential possibility to grasp various objects under several situations. Since the multi-fingered hand can use several grasp types such as fingertip grasp, and envelope grasp with taking the advantage of degrees of freedom. We develop grasp planner which selects a feasible g...

The interest in assistanceand personal robots is constantly growing. Therefore robots need new, sophisticated interaction abilities. Humanlike interaction seems to be an appropriate way to increase the quality of human-robot communication. Psychologists point out that most of the human-human interaction is conducted nonverbally. For that reason, researchers try to enable humanoid robots to real...