Development of entertainment robot and its future

Abstract

We have proposed the robot entertainment as an application for intelligent robotics. In order to raise this application as a new industry, the platform technology called OPEN-R has been developed at first. On this platform, Sony has developed various types of robots such as quadruped robot, AIBO and humanoid robot, QRIO. In this paper, we describe the technologies used in OPEN-R, then show what has been achieved on AIBO and QRIO.