RoMa: A Hi-tech Robotic Mannequin for the Fashion Industry

摘要

This paper presents the design performance characteristics of a novel Robotic Mannequin, "RoMa", developed for the fashion industry. RoMa, a full-body humanoid social robot platform, is currendy in the final stages of development for visual merchandising to promote customer appeal. RoMa is characterized by nine features which are listed as: appealing appearance, avoiding the uncanny valley, easy maintenance, interactive, light weight, low developmental cost, suitable body movements, suitable color, and user friendly. In this paper, important design procedures and considerations are briefly presented and discussed.