Mental Commit Robot and its Application to Robot Assisted Therapy

摘要

1ms paper describes research on mental commit robot that seeks a different direction that is not so rigidly dependent on such objective measures as accuracy, speed, and cost. The main goal of this research is to explore a new area in robotics, with an emphasis on human-robot interaction. In the previous research, we categorized robots into four categories in terms of appearance. Then, we introduced a cat robot and a seal robot, and evaluated them by interviewing many people. The results showed that physical interaction improved subjective evaluation. Moreover, a priori knowledge of a subject has much influence into subjective interpretation and evaluation of robot. In this paper, 785 subjects evaluated the seal robot and the results were analyzed by multivariate analysis. In addition, we applied mental commit robot to therapy of children like as animal assisted therapy. This paper describes some results of "robot assisted therapy."