Humanoid Robots: Use Cases as AI-Lab Companion : Can an empathic and collaborative digital companion motivate innovation?

Abstract

This paper describes several use cases for a humanoid robot in an innovation lab environment. They are implemented on Pepper, a commercially available robot. Pepper is used as digital consultant in the Siemens AI-Lab. The different functionalities range from being a concierge for new guests to being a tutor for AI or do answering questions in open and project-specific domains. Besides the built-in speech and visual recognition system provided by the robot our own developed AI technologies are integrated.