PERSONAL ROBOT AND PERSONAL ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more smoothly have communication between a user and a personal robot. PSOLUTION: The personal robot communicating with a human, has an image pickup part picking up the image of an object and an opening part which is installed at the outside of the image pickup part and picks up the image by the image pickup part. The personal robot is also equipped with a shell part capable of changing the position of the opening part, and an image pickup range control part which controls the range picked up with the image pickup part by controlling the position of the opening part of the shell part. The shell part intercepts a partial light of the incident light into the image pickup part and is installed as at least a part of eyeballs of the personal robot. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI