A reactive media system includes a motion control system having an animated figure with a body and actuators configured to adjust a figure portion of the body in response to interactive data received from one or more interactive data sources. The reactive media system includes a media control system having a tracking camera configured to generate signals indicative of a current position and orientation of the figure portion based on a set of trackers coupled to the figure portion. The media control system includes a media controller configured to receive the signals, determine the current position and orientation based on the signals, and generate data indicative of images to be projected onto an external surface of the figure portion having the current position and orientation. The media control system also includes a projector configured to receive the data from the media controller and project the images onto the external surface.

An AI enabled human emulation system, a method, and a computer program product may be provided for embodied cognition with humanoid robot hardware (robot) to emulate human behavior. The system may include a memory configured to store computer program code and a processor configured to execute the computer program code to employ common sense reasoning, in much the same holistic way that humans do. The processor may be configured to obtain a trained AI model and sensor data from a surrounding environment of the robot. The AI model is trained using a brain emulation system and a human body physiology simulation system. The processor may be further configured to generate novel emergent pattern data to self-regulate the robot. The processor may also be configured to control the robot that interacts with a user by expressing a behavior to the user.

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 robot includes an operation control unit that selects a motion of the robot, a drive mechanism that executes a motion selected by the operation control unit, and a remaining battery charge monitoring unit that monitors a remaining charge of a rechargeable battery. Behavioral characteristics of the robot change in accordance with the remaining battery charge. For example, a motion with a small processing load is selected at a probability that is higher the smaller the remaining battery charge. Referring to consumption plan data that define a power consumption pace of the rechargeable battery, the behavioral characteristics of the robot may be caused to change in accordance with a difference between the remaining battery charge scheduled in the consumption plan data and the actual remaining battery charge.

A communication system according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a communication system in which an operator who remotely operates a robot using an operation terminal communicates with a communication partner who is present around the robot via the robot, and includes a control unit that causes the robot to perform a bridging motion that is set in advance when a communication failure occurs between the operation terminal and the robot.

An expression feedback method and a smart robot, belonging to smart devices. The method comprises: step S1, a smart robot using an image collection apparatus to collect image information; step S2, the smart robot detecting whether human face information representing a human face exists in the image information; if so, acquiring position information and size information associated with the human face information, and then turning to step S3; and if not, returning to step S1; step S3, according to the position information and the size information, obtaining, by prediction, a plurality of pieces of feature point information in the human face information and outputting same; and step S4, using a first identification model formed through pre-training, determining whether the human face information represents a smiling face according to the feature point information, and then exiting from this step; if so, the smart robot outputting preset expression feedback information; and if not, exiting from this step. The beneficial effect of the method is: enriching an information interaction content between a smart robot and a user, so as to improve usage experience of the user.

A method and apparatus for controlling a social robot includes providing a set of quantitative personality trait values, also called a “personality profile” to a decision engine of the social robot. The personality profile is derived from a character portrayal in a fictional work, dramatic performance, or by a real-life person (any one of these sometime referred to herein as a “source character”). The decision engine controls social responses of the social robot to environmental stimuli, based in part on the set of personality trait values. The social robot thereby behaves in a manner consistent with the personality profile for the profiled source character.

Techniques described in this application are directed to an autonomous robot that is configured to interact with its environment through identifying the presence and emotional state (e.g., mood) of live subjects in the scene. The autonomous robot includes one or more remote physiological data collecting sensors capable of remotely collecting physiological data such as heart rate, blood circulation, or respiratory activity of the live subjects within close proximity of the robot.

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).

A service robot is capable of communicating with a reception device that assigns at least a reception number. The service robot includes: an image information acquirer that acquires image information including an image of a customer; a reception number acquirer that acquires a reception number from the reception device, in response to a reception operation performed by the customer; and a storage unit that stores the acquired reception number and the acquired image information in association with each other.