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A Soft Human-Interactive Robot RI-MAN

Tadashi Odashima, Masaki Onishi, Kenji Tahara, Kentaro Takagi, Fumihiko Asano, Yo Kato, Hiromichi Nakashima, Yuichi Kobayashi, Toshiharu Mukai, Zhiwei Luo, Shigeyuki Hosoe

Year
2006
Citations
37

Abstract

Our goal is to create advanced engineering systems such as a soft human interactive robot. The robot developed here is named RI-MAN. RI-MAN exhibits the skill and ability to realize human care and welfare tasks. RI-MAN can search out a specific person in real time by fuing audio and visual information, and understand human speech based on a sound recognition function. In addition, RI-MAN's body is coverd with soft touch sensors, and RI-MAN can react to the amplitude and location of external forces. Using all these sensor functions, RI-MAN can successfully follow human commands and hold up a dummy of the same size as an adult human. RI-MAN will become an invaluable partner robot.

Keywords

RobotComputer scienceHuman–computer interactionHuman–robot interactionFunction (biology)Computer visionArtificial intelligenceHumanoid robotHuman welfareSimulation

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