A robotic system comprising: an input sensor; an electromechanical interface; an electronic interface; and a processor comprising hardware and configured to execute machine-readable instructions including artificial intelligence-based instructions, wherein upon execution of the machine-readable instructions, the processor is configured to: process an input provided by a user via the input sensor based on the artificial intelligence-based instructions; generate a first output signal that is provided to the electromechanical interface such that a movable component connected to the robotic system is put in motion, and generate a second output signal that is provided to the electronic interface such that a behavior or expression responsive to the input is rendered at the electronic interface.

An information processing apparatus including a controller (130) configured to, based on a detected state of the apparatus, control outputting of sound that is performed by the apparatus, wherein the controller is configured to, according to an amount of change in the state, sequentially change a mode of outputting a synthetic sound that can be output by the apparatus in a normal state is provided. Furthermore, an information processing method including, by a processor, based on a detected state of an apparatus, controlling outputting of sound that is performed by the apparatus, wherein the controlling includes, according to an amount of change in the state, sequentially changing a mode of outputting a synthetic sound that can be output by the apparatus in a normal state is provided.

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device for providing a reaction on the basis of a user state and an operating method therefor. Here, the electronic device comprises: at least one sensor; a communication module for communicating with an external device; a memory for storing reaction sets including at least one piece of reaction information corresponding to each of a plurality of interaction elements; and a processor, wherein the processor may determine an interaction element on the basis of a user's state sensed through the at least one sensor, provide a reaction related to the user's state on the basis of a first reaction set corresponding to the determined interaction element, refine the frequency of use of the determined interaction element, obtain at least one piece of other reaction information related to the determined interaction element from at least one of the memory or the external device on the basis of the refined frequency of use, and add the at least one piece of other reaction information to the first reaction set. Other embodiments are also possible.

A server (3) includes a robot control unit (3j) that controls a motion of a robot; a user dynamic data recognition unit (3a1) that recognizes user dynamic data at a plurality of time points during guidance; an emotion estimation unit (3k) that estimates a current emotion of a user at the plurality of time points, based on the user dynamic data, and generates evaluation data being data in which the motion of the robot and the current emotion are associated with each other; and an evaluation data storage unit (3l) that stores the evaluation data in time series.

A server (3) includes a relative position recognition unit (3b) that recognizes a relative position of a robot (2) with respect to a user, and a target position determination unit (3f3) that determines a target position serving as a target of the relative position during guidance, based on the relative position when the user starts to move after the robot (2) starts the guidance.

A server 3 includes a user dynamic data recognition unit 3a1 that recognizes, during guidance, user dynamic data; a guidance request estimation unit 3c that estimates a guidance request of a user during the guidance, based on the user dynamic data; and a guidance action determination unit 3f that determines a guidance action to be taken by a robot 2 during the guidance, based on the estimated guidance request.

The present invention includes a collection device a communication module, a first processing unit, a second processing unit and an execution unit. The benefit of the invention compared to the prior art is: by the cooperation of the using of the first processing unit and the second processing unit, the complicated operation with which the second processing unit can not accomplish is transferred to the first processing unit, the first processing unit then accomplish the operation, thus the processing speed and accuracy are increased. Meanwhile the simple logic operation processed by the first processing unit is transferred to the second processing unit the second processing unit then processes the logic operation and forms control signal to control the execution unit, so that the delayed processing of the execution unit is avoided.

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating robot interaction behavior. The method for generating robot interaction behavior includes generating co-speech gesture of a robot corresponding to utterance input of a user, generating a nonverbal behavior of the robot, that is a sequence of next joint positions of the robot, which are estimated from joint positions of the user and current joint positions of the robot based on a pre-trained neural network model for robot pose estimation, and generating a final behavior using at least one of the co-speech gesture and the nonverbal behavior.

A system and method for controlling animated characters. The system involves an animated character mapping perception into a number of domains, including a world domain, linguistic domain and social domain. The system is computationally perceived items that should be abstracted from the character's environment for processing. The animated character is able to utilize different levels of information gathering or learning, different levels of decision making, and different levels of dynamic responses to provide life-like interactions.

A decoration system includes a plurality of decorative covers each having a cover-to-cover fastening structure and an electrical component fastening structure. Each cover-to-cover fastening structure includes a fastening assembly for releasably connecting one of the decorative covers to a contiguously adjacent decorative cover. In other words, the decorative covers may be arranged horizontally and vertically as desired. Each electrical component fastening structure defines at least one opening that selectively receives elements of an external electrical device into an interior compartment of a respective decorative cover. The electrical component fastening structure enables a respective decorative cover to be coupled to a traditional light string having lamps, embedded LEDs, or be coupled to an MPC and related electronics.