Improving the Expressiveness of a Social Robot through Luminous Devices

Abstract

Social robots during human-robot interaction have to follow certain behavioral norms. To improve the expressiveness of a robot, we focus this work on the visual non-verbal expressive capabilities. Our robot has been equipped with two eyes, two cheeks, a mouth, and a heart (some of them allowing expressive modes non existent in humans). Each one of these parts do the robot expressing different emotions or states, or even communicating in a non-verbal fashion with users.