The social robot ‘Flobi’: Key concepts of industrial design

摘要: This paper introduces the industrial design of social robot ‘Flobi’. In total, three key concepts influenced design: First, head Flobi appears as a cartoon-like character and has ‘hole-free’ without any visible conjunctions. Second, dynamic features to display not only primary emotions, but also shame, typical secondary emotion. Third, structural implements exchangeable modular parts. Through design, underlying hardware is quickly accessible visual (e.g., hairstyle, facial features) can be altered easily. A first study demonstrated successful implementation Flobi's features, whereas second demonstrates that hair modules influence gender-schematic perceptions robot.