A robot device includes a receiver and a sender. The receiver receives a character in a virtual space. The sender sends authorization to operate the robot device to an apparatus in return for the received character.

A monitor is installed in an eye of a robot, and an eye image is displayed on the monitor. The robot extracts a feature quantity of an eye of a user from a filmed image of the user. The feature quantity of the eye of the user is reflected in the eye image. For example, a feature quantity is a size of a pupillary region and a pupil image, and a form of an eyelid image. Also, a blinking frequency or the like may also be reflected as a feature quantity. Familiarity with respect to each user is set, and which user's feature quantity is to be reflected may be determined in accordance with the familiarity.

According to one aspect, behavior generation for situationally-aware social robots may include generating a synthesized behavior based on a latent space representation indicative of a situational context including a situationally-aware social robot and one or more individuals, performing behavior retargeting on the synthesized behavior based on a real behavior from an initial latent space input to generate a retargeted behavior, and performing the retargeted behavior. The generating the synthesized behavior and the performing behavior retargeting may be implemented based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) based network. The GAN based network may be trained using a multimodal human behavioral dataset.

A communication robot includes an auditory information processing portion configured to recognize a volume of voice collected by a sound collection portion and generate an auditory attention map by projecting a sound position in a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional attention map in which the robot is located at a center, a visual information processing portion configured to generate a visual attention map using a face detection result obtained by detecting a face of a person from an image captured by an imaging portion and a motion detection result obtained by detecting a motion of the person, an attention map generation portion configured to generate an attention map by integrating the auditory attention map and the visual attention map, and a motion processing portion configured to control eyeball movements and motions of the communication robot using the attention map.

The invention relates to an event system (10, 50) for an animated event, wherein the event system (10, 50) comprises: at least one event furniture component (100, 200, 250, 300, 350) which can be moved in space and which comprises at least one table and/or at least one chair, and a device for sensory stimulation (12, 52) of guests (1) of the animated event, wherein the event furniture component (100, 200, 250, 300, 350) which can be moved in space comprises movement means for mechanical movement, and wherein the event system (10, 50) also comprises a first controller (1901) which is designed to control the mechanical movement and the output of the device (12, 52) for sensory stimulation of guests (1) of the animated event in a synchronized manner. The invention also relates to a method for operating such an event system (10, 50).

An apparatus, robot, method and recording medium is provided, wherein when it is determined that a speech of an adult includes a warning word, whether the adult is angry or scolding is determined based on a physical feature value of the speech of the adult. When it is determined that the adult is angry, at least any of the following processes is performed: (a) a process of causing a loudspeaker to output a first sound, (b) a process of causing an apparatus to perform a first operation, and (c) a process of causing a display to perform a first display.

A socio-emotive-cognitive architecture for a social robot that includes at least two of an attention system that determines at least one of the subject on which and the direction to which the robot focuses at least one of its resources in real-time; an embodied speech system that facilitates intent-based variation of utterances combined with multi-segment body movement; a motivation system that adjusts at least one of the degree of interaction and a mode of interaction for engaging a human user; and an emotion system that partially determines how the attention system, the embodied speech system, and the motivation system perform for any given interaction with a human.

A robotic creature system includes an actuatable head defining eyes, an eyelid mechanism, a body, a drivetrain, and a set of sensors. A method for robotic creature operation includes: detecting an event associated with a technological imperfection and automatically performing a set of expressive actions associated with the event.

A robotic creature system includes an actuatable head defining eyes, an eyelid mechanism, a body, a drivetrain, and a set of sensors. A method for robotic creature operation includes: detecting an event associated with a technological imperfection and automatically performing a set of expressive actions associated with the event.

A robot having a spherical casing, a weight driving mechanism, and a rotating mechanism is provided. The robot further includes a control circuit that controls the weight driving mechanism and the rotating mechanism is also provided. The control circuit is configured to, when responding to an input instruction received from a user, based on a predetermined processing that requires a predetermined amount of time or more to respond to an input instruction by a user input via an input device, cause the weight driving mechanism to be rotated to where a guide path of the weight driving mechanism is positioned to be orthogonal to an advancing direction by a set of driving wheels. The control circuit is further configured to cause the weight to be reciprocally move along the guide path that is positioned orthogonal to the advancing direction, during the predetermined processing.