− This paper reports a trial of immersing interactive humanoid robots into a real human society, where they are charged with the communication task of foreign language education. For this purpose, we developed interactive humanoid robots equipped with wireless person identification technology for facilitating interaction with multiple persons. We believe that the ability to identify persons all...

This paper reports our novel approach to developing a social robot. Such a robot reads human relationships from their physical behavior. We have developed an interactive humanoid robot that attracts humans to interact with it and, as a result, induces their group behaviors in front of it. In our approach, the robot recognizes friendly relationships among humans by simultaneously identifying eac...

Non-verbal signals expressed through body language play a crucial role in multi-modal human communication during social relations. Indeed, in all cultures, facial expressions are the most universal and direct signs to express innate emotional cues. A human face conveys important information in social interactions and helps us to better understand our social partners and establish empathic links...

This paper describes the groundwork for designing a social and emotional interaction between a human and robot in game-playing. We considered that understanding deception in terms of mind reading plays a key role in realistic interactions for social robots. In order to understand the human mind, the humanoid robot observes nonverbal deception cues through multimodal perception during poker play...

To increase the interest of a child in motor training we have tried to use a humanoid social robot that acts like a coach to encourage the patient. The humanoid robot "KineTron" was assembled from commercially available Bioloid Premium robotic kit. Nine movement scenarios of robot behaviour combined with voice and music were developed. During the training session, a therapist activates one of t...

Humanoid robots can serve as a direct approach to the acquisition of this type of competence, since a sufficiently sophisticated humanoid robot would be able to experience much of the world in the same way as humans. Currently, however, humanoid robots have very limited experience with the world due to obstacles ranging from mechanical design to social constraints on the use of autonomous robots.

In this paper we introduce the core results of the project on software development for social robotics systems. The usability of maintenance and control features is crucial for many kinds of systems, but in the case of social robotics we also have to take into account that (1) the humanoid robot physically interacts with humans, (2) the conversation with children might have different requiremen...

BACKGROUND The use of humanoid robots to play a therapeutic role in helping individuals with social disorders such as autism is a newly emerging field, but remains unexplored in schizophrenia. As the ability for robots to convey emotion appear of fundamental importance for human-robot interactions, we aimed to evaluate how schizophrenia patients recognize positive and negative facial emotions d...

From Motor Learning to Social Learning: A Study of Development on a Humanoid Robot In this thesis, we describe how a humanoid robot designed to match the kinematics of a one-year old infant can learn to reach to visual targets, point toward visual targets, and share attention with a human. These three skills span the domains of motor learning and social learning. Instead of developing each of t...