Manzai robot system with scalability based on distributed software components

Abstract

This paper describes a manzai robot system with scalability that is developed based on the distributed software components. Manzai is a Japanese traditional stand-up comedy that is usually performed by two comedians. The manzai robots generate their manzai scripts based on web news articles related to keywords given by audiences and the searching results on WWW automatically, and then the robots perform the manzai scripts. Each robot is controlled by distributed RT components executed on the Raspberry Pi controller. The RT components control the manzai robots synchronously. The paper focuses on the scalability of the manzai robot system. Experimental results show the feasibility of manzai performance robots with scalability of the functions of the robot systems.