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As the presence of robots in everyday life becomes more common, it is expected that interactions between humans and robots will include the modality of touch. To date, however, little research has been conducted on tactile interactions between humans and anthropomorphic robots. This study investigates human induced tactile interaction with an android robot. To facilitate data analysis, existing touch...
Personal space is the area surrounding individuals into which intrusion by others causes discomfort and strangeness. We found that when other people approach a highly human-like android robot which is operated in synchronization with human motion, the operator sometimes feels as if he/she is approached. Based on this observation, we hypothesized that the personal space of the operator could also be...
In this paper, we report an android robot system to support medical and welfare fields using communication, and a demonstration experiment using this system at a pain clinic. An android which consist of the system is Actroid-F very similar to real female and can exhibit various facial expressions such as smile, anger and surprise. Since the android and an air-servo control system are light, compact...
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