Many robots that play with humans have been developed so far, but developing a robot that
physically contacts humans while playing is challenging. We have developed robots that …

Service robots working around humans are expected to become widespread in the next
decade. There have been numerous works for developing autonomous mobile robots, starting …

Human symbiosis service robots of various sizes have already been developed. However,
few quantitative investigations have been made concerning the influence of the size of a robot …

We investigated the effect of height of a robot on comfortableness of verbal interaction with
the robot. We created a robot whose height could be changed continuously, and carried out …

We are developing a robot that can play an outdoor game with children. In realizing such a
robot, the person detection and tracking methods play an important role. In this paper, we …

This paper introduces a daily-life-support robot, ASAHI. ASAHI is equipped with a robot
avatar, which converses with the user using speech and gesture. He can perform a simple …

Although human symbiosis service robots have been developed in various sizes, there have
been few quantitative investigations on the psychological effect that the size of a robot has …

The development of robots that play with humans is a challenging topic for robotics. We are
developing a robot that plays tag with human players. To realize such a robot, it needs to …

Purpose of this study is to realize a children's play "Darumasan ga koronda" (red light, green
light) by a mobile robot and a human. In this paper, the robot is "it" and the human is the …

This paper proposes a novel tour guide robot, “ASAHI ReBorn”, which can lead a guest by
hand one-on-one while maintaining a proper distance from the guest. The robot uses a …