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Most of the robots are nowadays evolving and imitating human social skills to achieve sociable interaction with humans. Socially interactive robots require different characteristics rather than conventional robots. Likewise human-human interaction, human-robot interaction is also accompanied with emotional interaction. Therefore, the robot's emotional expression is very important for human, especially facial expressions play an important role among the whole part of the human body. In this paper, we introduce a facial robot expression simulator ‘FRESi’.