Design and evaluation of the soft hand whs-1 for the emotion expression humanoid robot Kobian

Zecca, Massimiliano; Endo, Keita; Mizoguchi, Y.; Kusano, Takuya; Itoh, Kazuko; Takanishi, Atsuo

doi:10.4017/gt.2008.07.02.186.00

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“…Please note that the translation of Japanese terms into English might not be 100% correct. In case of doubt, please refer to the original Japanese text [4]. We also asked each participant to provide a free comment on the hands and on the experiment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A fundamental role during the interaction is of course played by the hand, which should both be capable of grasping and of gestures. To this purpose, we designed and realized the Waseda Soft-Hand #1 (WSH-1) [4], and we compared its acceptance with a hard and a mixed (hard/soft) hands. The results showed that the soft hand was preferred to the hard or the mixed ones.…”

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Evaluation of the effects of the shape of the artificial hand on the quality of the interaction

Zecca

Iida

Endo

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

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Personal robots and robot technology (RT)-based assistive devices are expected to play a major role in our elderly-dominated society, by interacting with surrounding people both physically and psychologically. A fundamental role during the interaction is of course played by the hand. In this paper we present the evaluation of the effect of hand shape to the quality of the interaction, in particular during handshake.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the effects of the shape of the artificial hand on the quality of the interaction

Zecca

Iida

Endo

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

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“…We developed anthropomorphic soft robotic hands Waseda Soft Hand (WSH) (Zecca, Endo, Endo, Mizoguchi, Kusano, Itoh, & Takanishi, 2008;Endo, Iida, Endo, Mizoguchi, Zecca, & Takanishi, 2010) (Figure 10) series and equip KOBIAN-R with it. The WSH series was developed with the aim of investigating what kind of tactile impressions the developed hands (softness, shapes, application of forces, etc.)…”

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Towards Natural Emotional Expression and Interaction

Takanishi

Endo

Petersen

2012

International Journal of Synthetic Emotions

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In present research the advanced fundamental mechanical capabilities of anthropomorphic robots developed in Takanishi laboratory at Waseda University are to be enhanced in order to enable these robots to interact with humans in a natural way. The anthropomorphic robot KOBIAN is able to express human-like facial expressions and whole-body gestures. It is equipped with vision and audio sensors that allow it to react to interaction input from human partners and to generate an appropriate emotional expression response. Furthermore, the anthropomorphic flute playing robot WF-4RVI is technically able to perform a musical wind-instrument performance at the level of an intermediate human player. Using this fundamental technical capability the authors implemented a musical-based interaction system (MbIS) that enables the robot to collaboratively play together with human musicians in a natural way. For both of the introduced interaction systems, the authors present and discuss the result of various experiments that were done to examine how well the interaction with a robot resembles realistic human-to-human interaction.

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