Body-Sharing Multi-Robot System in Robot Theater towards Social Implementation

Abstract

Recently, various types of robot partners aiming at social implementation have been developed and researched, but they have not yet been popularized. In the case of communication robots, it has been reported that it is easier and more comfortable for humans to communicate with multiple robots. However, multirobots require large installation space; the role or character of each robot is not clear, and it is difficult for users to design utterance and action contents. Therefore, we propose a new design methodology of the body-sharing multi-robot system and develop a kangaroo-based robot that contains two physically interconnected objects as one of the models of multiple communication robots. Next, we show the evaluation of the proposed robot in terms of impression and discuss the possibility of social implementation of the developed body sharing multirobot system.