A communication apparatus that can improve communication quality is provided. A communication apparatus including a face unit for achieving a configuration simulating right and left eyes by a mechanical movement or a display. The communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a distance to and a direction of a communication partner, and a control unit configured to control the mechanical movement or the display of the configurations in such a way that viewpoints of the right and left eyes are directed to the distance and the direction detected by the detection unit.

The present disclosure relates to a method for learning and embodying a human facial expression by a robot, in which human emotional indicators are allowed to match with servo motor parameter values of a robot and the robot automatically and mechanically learns a human expression to imitate the human expression.

A robot includes a display, a sensing unit including at least one sensor for detecting a physical stimulus, and a processor configured to detect the physical stimulus based on a sensing value acquired from the at least one sensor while an operation is performed, identify the physical stimulus based on the acquired sensing value, perform control to stop or terminate the operation based on the identified physical stimulus, and control the display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to the identified physical stimulus.

A method for controlling effectors of a robot by means of primitives made up of parameterizable coded functions, the primitives being activated conditionally by actions selected by an action selection system, the method based on associating coded objects with a sequence of characters corresponding to their semantic description, and comprising: i. a semantic description of the coded objects stored in the memory, made up of a string of characters representing a perception function of the robot and of another string of characters representing a perceived object, ii. a semantic description of the primitives, made up of a string of characters representing a possible action of the robot and of another, optional string of characters representing the optional parameters of this action, iii. a semantic description of rules made up of the combination of a string of characters representing the associated context and another string of characters representing the associated action.

Systems and methods for human-machine interaction. An adaptive behavioral control system of a human-machine interaction system controls an interaction sub-system to perform a plurality of actions for a first action type in accordance with a computer-behavioral policy, each action being a different alternative action for the action type. The adaptive behavioral control system detects a human reaction of an interaction participant to the performance of each action of the first action type from data received from a human reaction detection sub-system. The adaptive behavioral control system stores information indicating each detected human reaction in association with information identifying the associated action. In a case where stored information indicating detected human reactions for the first action type satisfy an update condition, the adaptive behavioral control system updates the computer-behavioral policy for the first action type.

A robot is equipped with a processor. The processor detects external appearance or audio of a living being, and by controlling the robot, causes the robot to execute an operation in accordance with liking data indicating preferences of the robot regarding external appearance or audio and the detected external appearance or audio of the living being.

A system for providing pilot or controller support in a reduced crew transport environment may include a set of sensors configured to collect a set of measurements of a set of physiological signals of a user. The system may further include an emotional analyzer model usable to generate at least one emotional parameter value corresponding to the set of measurements. The system may also include a natural language processing model usable to generate a natural language statement corresponding to the at least one emotional parameter value for output to the pilot.

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are described for a mount for a computing device. an artificial body shaped to represent at least a portion of a being; and a mounting interface coupled to the artificial body, the mounting interface configured to couple a computing device to the artificial body

One aspect of the invention is a robot system comprising a flexible artificial skin operable to be mechanically flexed under the control of a computational system. The system comprises a first set of software instructions operable to receive and process input images to determine that at least one human likely is present. The system comprises a second set of software instructions operable to determine a response to a perceived human presence, whereby the computational system shall output signals corresponding to the response, such that, in at least some instances, the output signals cause the controlled flexing of the artificial skin.

A robot device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an input acceptor configured to accept an input to a robot device; an expression content decider configured to decide a set of expression contents in which the expression contents are associated with each other, the expression contents each indicating a response of the robot device with respect to the input; and the signal generator configured to generate an instruction signal that causes another device other than the robot device to execute an operation corresponding to one portion out of the set of expression contents.