There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.

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 includes an umbrella portion capable of performing a rotational movement and an opening/closing movement of an umbrella; and a processor. The processor acquires emotion data representing a pseudo emotion in accordance with an external stimulus, and controls, based on the emotion data, at least one of the rotational movement or the opening/closing movement of the umbrella of the umbrella portion.

A communication robot includes a housing and a speaker. The communication robot performs a motion of emitting a sound including a particular phoneme. With such a configuration, it is possible to provide a new communication robot that contributes to the development of the listening ability of languages. For example, the communication robot may include a storage. The communication robot may be configured to determine a motion to be performed based on the information of the storage.

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method to increase movement patterns of an autonomous mobile body more easily, the information processing apparatus including an operation control unit configured to control an operation of a driving unit. The operation control unit generates, on the basis of a teaching movement, control sequence data for causing a driving unit of an autonomous mobile body to execute an autonomous movement corresponding to the teaching movement, and causes the driving unit to execute the autonomous movement according to the control sequence data, on the basis of an action plan determined by situation estimation. The information processing method includes controlling, by a processor, an operation of a driving unit, and the controlling further includes generating control sequence data, and causing the driving unit to execute an autonomous movement according to the control sequence data.

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can provide more useful information for an action plan of an autonomous mobile body, the information processing apparatus including an action recommendation unit configured to present a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation. The action recommendation unit determines the recommended action on the basis of an action history collected from a plurality of the autonomous mobile bodies, and on the basis of a situation summary received from a target autonomous mobile body that is a target of recommendation. The information processing method includes presenting, by a processor, a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation.

A social ability generation device includes a perception unit that acquires person information on a person, extracts feature information on the person from the acquired person information, perceives an action that occurs between a communication device performing communication and the person, and perceives an action that occurs between people, a learning unit that multimodally learns an emotional interaction of the person using the extracted feature information on the person, and an operation generation unit that generates a behavior on the basis of the learned emotional interaction information of the person.

A simulated emotional state of a device is generated and maintained based on previous emotional state and contextual information. A trigger is associated with an effect value. For example, successful completion of a task may have an effect value of +5 while task failure may have an effect value of −6. Upon occurrence of a trigger, an associated effect value of the trigger may be combined with a previously determined effect value to determine a function input value (FIV). The FIV is used as input to a function that provides an emotion value as output. The emotion value may then be used as input to determine a particular action. For example, if the emotion value corresponds to “happy”, the resulting action may be presenting an animation of a smile on a display device. As triggers occur, the function input value is updated, resulting in updates to the emotion value.

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.

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.