A toy head assembly with facial features that can be adjusted by touching the facial features with enough force to alter their shape and/or position. Within the toy head assembly is a head base that is surrounded, in part, by a face that is made of an elastomeric material. Facial features on the face are supported, in part, by posable elements that lay under the elastomeric material of the face. Each posable element extends from the interior head base at a different ball and socket joint. Each posable element also has a post that extends from the ball and socket joint. The post contacts the interior surface of the face, wherein movement of a post alters a point of contact between the post and the face within the contact area. Changes in the point of contact cause changes in the contours of the face. This alters the facial features.

A robot includes a memory in which an action, that the robot is caused to execute as a response to a predetermined external stimulus, the action including a plurality of elements, is registered in advance by a user; at least one processor. The at least one processor, in a case in which the robot is caused to execute a mistaken action as the response to the predetermined external stimulus, changes, in correspondence with a state of the robot, a number of elements to be executed correctly as registered in the memory.

In an aspect, an apparatus and method are provided for creating an illusion of animation of a subject shape. The apparatus includes a screen, an intermediate body, a plurality of lights, and a controller in electronic communication with the plurality of lights. The controller is operable to turn the plurality of lights on and off in at least one of: a selected order, a combination, and a simultaneous operation of all of the lights. The intermediate body and the plurality of lights are positioned relative to said screen such that the intermediate body is positioned between the screen and the plurality of lights and such that said plurality of lights are operable to project a plurality of unique outlines of at least portions of the intermediate body onto the screen to generate an illusion of animation of the subject shape.

A robot to autonomously act includes a sensor to detect an external stimulus, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor causes, in a case where an action trigger that is predetermined is satisfied, the robot to execute an action selected, from a selection candidate list corresponding to the action trigger, at a selection probability dependent on a growth level, the growth level representing a degree of pseudo-growth of the robot, and changes, in a case where the sensor detects the external stimulus during a period from when the robot is caused to execute the action until an elapse of a predetermined time, the selection probability that the action is selected from the selection candidate list.

There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.

An information processing device includes a processor. The processor stores, in a storage, a piece of correspondence information in which a detection result by a sensor at a certain time point, the sensor being included in a robot for detecting at least one action from a user, is correlated with presence or absence of a predetermined action from outside to the robot within a predetermined period including the certain time point. Based on pieces of correspondence information stored in the storage and corresponding to time points different from one another, the pieces of correspondence information each being the piece of correspondence information, the processor makes a prediction for an action that the robot receives from the user at a specific time point after the time points.

A robot includes: a body part capable of contacting a placement surface; a head part connected to a front end of the body part to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation extending in a front-back direction of the body part and rotatable about a second axis of rotation extending in a width direction of the body part, and capable of contacting the placement surface; a drive unit which performs a rotation about the first axis of rotation and a rotation about the second axis of rotation independently of each other to drive the head part; and a processor which controls the drive unit to perform preparation control to rotate the head part about the second axis of rotation by a preparation angle and vibration control to alternately repeat forward rotation and reverse rotation of the head part about the first axis of rotation.

Described is an expandable accordion-type toy with a nesting shell that allows the toy to selectively expand and contract. The toy includes a top shell and a first expandable component connected to the top shell. A bottom shell is connected to a second expandable component. A center shell connects the first expandable component to the second expandable. Each of the first and second expandable components are made of accordion pop tubes to selectively transition between a contracted state and an expanded state. When in the contracted state, the first expendable component is concealed within the top shell and center shell, while the second expandable component is concealed within the center shell and bottom shell.

A robot includes an exterior, a casing provided inside the exterior, and a hardware processor configured to control operation of the casing inside the exterior. The casing includes a head part and a body part, and the hardware processor performs control to express a trembling motion by repeatedly causing a twisting motion of the casing inside the exterior around a rotation axis at a connection point between the body part and the head part, in a state where at least part of the robot is in contact with a placement surface.

There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.