This chapter surveys some of the principal research trends in Social Robotics and its
application to human–robot interaction (HRI). Social (or Sociable) robots are designed to …

Abstract Since 1990, at Waseda University the development on the Anthropomorphic Flutist
Robot has been focused on mechanically reproducing the physiology of the organs involved …

Up to now, different kinds of musical performance robots (MPRs) and robotic musicians
(RMs) have been developed. MPRs are designed to closely reproduce the motor skills …

Social robotics aims at designing robots capable of joint interaction with humans. On a
conceptual level, sufficient mutual understanding is usually said to be a necessary condition …

Empathy is an essential part of communication in healthcare. It is a multidimensional
concept and the two key dimensions: emotional and cognitive empathy allow clinicians to …

Our research aims to develop an anthropomorphic saxophone-playing robot; as an
approach to understand the human motor control from an engineering point of view. In this …

抄録 The relation between the human and the music has a long history dating from the
antiquity. Music constitutes an important mean of communication of everyday life. Since the …

Drawing on concepts from systemics, cybernetics, and musical automata, this paper
proposes a mechatronic, electroacoustic instrument that allows for shared control between …

The research on the Waseda Flutist Robot, since 1990, is an approach to understand human
motor control from an engineering point of view, as well as introducing novel ways of …

As a result from our research, the Waseda Flutist Robot is able of playing the flute nearly
similar to an intermediate level flutist. In order to enhance the expressiveness of its …