Alter-Ego: A Mobile Robot With a Functionally Anthropomorphic Upper Body Designed for Physical Interaction

摘要: Historically, robots first found application in factories and plants. Until recently, the most noticeable examples of robot systems directly sold to consumer were limited edutainment (e.g., NAO [1]), automated chore [26], social telepresence platforms [27]. Initially, consisted a mobile base with an interactive screen. Today, following trend anthropomorphization technology, human-like upper bodies have begun replace those simple screens Pepper [2] R1 [3]) share same communication modalities humans, e.g., body posture, gestures, gaze direction, facial expressions. Unfortunately, are mostly designed speak make gestures capabilities when it comes physically interacting people their surrounding environments.