Social robots play a more and more important role in our society. For better acceptance and more fluent interactions between humans and robots it is generally assumed that implementing human-like cognitive functions within robots is helpful. A between-subjects experiment (N = 40) was conducted to investigate whether implementing a theory of mind within a humanoid robot will lead to higher accep...

We have developed a simulator of humanoid robots and a controller of their whole body motions in MITI’s Humanoid Robotics Project. The simulator can emulate the dynamics of the motions of the robots whose structure may vary, and generate a sequence of the £elds of view from the eyes of the robot according to the motions. The structure-varying system is managed by introducing virtual links. The ...

Humanoid robots operating in everyday life environments must generate the gait based on the environmental conditions. Often the gait has to satisfy different objectives. In this paper, we present a new method for humanoid robot gait generation based on multiobjective evolutionary algorithms. In our method, we consider two different conflicting objectives for the humanoid robot gait generation: ...

Humanoid robot requires a robust prevention system against external disturbances to protect itself from falling to the ground and to perform its tasks completely. In this paper, a Falling Prevention System for humanoid robot is proposed to avoid falling from the disturbances, and helps humanoid robot recover its balance from external force by taking a step. The algorithm for the Falling Prevent...

We have been developing new abilities of humanoid robot to realize proxy drives of a lift truck. Construction machines such as a lift truck play an important role in many tasks, but sometimes the environments are too hazardous for human operators. If a tele-operated humanoid robot can drive a construction machine, it can work at a dangerous place. This humanoid robot operator has two advantages...

Abstract Autonomous mobile robots that operate in environments with people are expected to be able deal human proxemics and social distances. Previous research investigated how can approach persons or implement human-aware navigation algorithms. However, experimental on avoid a person comfortable way is largely missing. The aim of the current work experimentally determine shape size personal sp...

Declining birthrate and a growing proportion of elderly people are closed up as social issues in Japan. Especially, a growing proportion of elderly people is seen as an issue in nations of Europe and North America and so on as well as Japan. New labors engaging in the life support and the nursing for the elderly person will need in the future. To supplement the lack of the manpower, the researc...