The present invention is applied to the human-robot interaction field, and provides a method and an apparatus for interaction between a robot and a user; the method includes: determining an original direction where a voice signal is generated upon receiving a voice signal; adjusting a robot from a current direction to the original direction, and capturing a picture corresponding to the original direction; detecting whether a human face exists in the picture; when a human face exists in the picture, recognizing whether a user corresponding to the human face is a legal user; and when the user corresponding to the human face is a legal user, interacting with the legal user. The method can improve the accuracy of instruction execution of the robot.

The present invention is applied to the human-robot interaction field, and provides a method and apparatus for adjusting interactive directions of robots; the method includes: determining an original direction where a voice signal is generated upon receiving a voice signal; switching a robot from a current direction to the original direction, and capturing a picture corresponded to the original direction; detecting whether a human face exists in the picture; when a human face exists in the picture, determining a required adjustment angle according to a location of the human face in the picture; and adjusting the robot according to the required adjustment angle. Through the above method, the determined location and direction obtained after the adjustment is more precise.

A control device that controls an operation of a robot for alerting a human is provided.

A control device that controls a robot includes an acquiring unit that acquires field of view information of a human and a control unit that controls an operation of an alert unit provided on the robot based on the field of view information. The control unit controls the alert unit such that the alert unit performs an alert operation according to a target task of the robot within an auxiliary field of view area of the human. The alert unit includes a manipulator provided on the robot. The alert operation includes an operation of the manipulator gripping an object relating to the target task of the robot.

Each robot effectively appeals its own device even when multiple robots are present in surroundings. A robot comprises a person detector, an appeal permitter, and a movement controller. The person detector detects a person. The appeal permitter permits execution of an appealing movement attracting interest of a person. The movement controller executes the appealing movement when the person detector detects a person and execution of the appealing movement is permitted by the appeal permittter.

A control system comprises one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to extract a feature of a person in an image captured by a camera, classify the person into a preset first group or a preset second group based on the feature, estimate a moving speed of the person belonging to the second group, and switch, based on the moving speed, a mode between a high-load mode for performing a high-load process and a low-load mode for performing a process with a load lower than a load in the high-load mode.

The present disclosure relates to a facility guide robot that provides necessary information to a user who uses the facility while moving inside the facility. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a facility guide robot and a facility guide method using the same, wherein the facility guide robot may actively provide the guide information to the facility users before the facility user requests to use the facility guide robot. That is, the convenience of the facility user may be improved by allowing the facility guide robot to provide the guide information necessary to the facility user before the facility user, who needs the guide, checks or calls the facility guide robot to receive the guide information.

A method for controlling one or more operations of an autonomous mobile robot maneuverable within a home includes establishing wireless communication between an autonomous mobile robot and a remote computing system and, in response to receiving a wireless command signal from the remote computing system, initiating one or more operations of the autonomous mobile robot. The autonomous mobile robot is remote from an audio media device stationed within the home. The audio media device is capable of receiving and emitting audio. The remote computing system is configured to associate identification data of the autonomous mobile robot with identification data of the audio media device. The wireless command signal corresponds to an audible user command received by the audio media device.

Methods and systems for facilitating interactions between a robot and user are provided. The system may include a robot and an electronic device communicatively coupled to the robot. The robot may include a plurality of actuators ones of which are configured to cause a mechanical action of at least one component of the robot, a plurality of interaction inducing components operatively connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of actuators, at least one sensor configured to detect at least one action of a user, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including computer readable program code embodied therein that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: receive a task; identify, based on similarity to the task received, a similar task from a database stored in the memory, the database including at least one stored task-solution pair; execute the solution associated with the similar task; and store a new task-solution pair responsive to the robot performing a solution relating to the task.

A robot includes: a camera; a driver configured to control a motion of the robot; a memory configured to store information on a plurality of motions of the robot and a plurality of emotional states of a pet corresponding to the plurality of motions of the robot; and a processor connected to the driver, the camera, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain at least one image of the pet through the camera, identify, based on the obtained at least one image the pet and the information stored in the memory, an emotional state of the pet from among the plurality of emotional states of the pet, identify, based on the information stored in the memory, a motion of the robot corresponding to the identified emotional state, from among the plurality of motions, and control the driver to cause the robot to perform the identified motion of the robot.

A robot control system includes: plural robots; a receiving unit that receives a robot dispatch request from a user; a sensor that detects a state of the user who performs the robot dispatch request; and a controller that determines priority on the robot dispatch request based on the state of the user detected by the sensor, selects, in a case where plural robot dispatch requests are received, a robot to be dispatched among the plural robots in order of the priority on the robot dispatch requests, and dispatches the robot.