The authors have been developing humanoid robots in order to develop new mechanisms and functions for a humanoid robot that has the ability to communicate naturally with a human by expressing human-like emotion. We considered that human hands play an important role in communication because human hands have grasping, sensing and emotional expression abilities. Then, we developed the the Emotion ...

The study of social learning in robotics has been motivated by both scientific interest in the learning process and practical desires to produce machines that are useful, flexible, and easy to use. In this review, we introduce the social and task-oriented aspects of robot imitation. We focus on methodologies for addressing two fundamental problems. First, how does the robot know what to imitate...

We aim to develop a humanoid robot which can go anywhere an ordinary human covers. For such purpose, we consider enhancing the walk and work capabilities of a humanoid robot by integrating manipulation and locomotion. Especially, we focus on three motions of a humanoid robot: pushing a heavy object placed on the floor, working while thrusting a hand on to a desk, and ascending large steps while...

We are developing an infant-like humanoid robot, Infanoid , to investigate the underlying mechanisms of social intelligence that will allow it to communicate with human beings and participate in human social activities. We propose an epigenetic model of social intelligence — how the robot acquires communicative behavior through interaction with its social environment, especially with human care...

This paper details the hardware, software, and electrical design of the humanoid robot CHARLI-2 (Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence). CHARLI-2 was the first robot from the United States to be awarded the Louis Vouitton Best Humanoid Award.

The robot in a highly humanoid appearance, and the ability to play the violin is presented for a robot entertainment and ornamental. By model for keeping moving range of the mechanical structure, a method makes the robot has the possibility of playing the violin. Based on ARM core intelligent control with AHRS is used to realize control of the robot behavior. Finally, the present study realizes...

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...

finding an optimal path for a robot in a soccer field involves different parameters such as the positions of the robot, positions of the obstacles, etc. due to simplicity and smoothness of ferguson spline, it has been employed for path planning between arbitrary points on the field in many research teams. in order to optimize the parameters of ferguson spline some evolutionary or intelligent al...

BIWEN, ZHU. Design of Etiquette for Patient Robot Interaction in a Medicine Delivery Task. (Under the direction of Dr. David B. Kaber). Robots are currently being developed to perform medicine delivery tasks for patients in healthcare environments (e.g., hospitals and nursing homes). It is important to ensure that robots are able to interact with patients in ways that patients find comfortable ...

The Humanoid Robotics Project of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan realized that biped humanoid robots can perform manual labour. The project developed humanoid robot platforms, consisting of humanoid robot hardware and a package of fundamental software, and explored applications of humanoid robots on them. The applications include maintenance tasks of industrial plants, tele...