As social robots see increasing deployment within the general public, improving the
interaction with those robots is essential. Spoken language offers an intuitive interface for …

Similar to how the smartphone and Internet have significantly changed our daily lives,
artificial intelligence (AI) applications have started to profoundly affect our everyday lives as …

This article gives an overview of our symbiotic human-robot interaction project, which aims
at an autonomous android who behaves and interacts just like a human. A conversational …

We describe an attentive listening system for the autonomous android robot ERICA. The
proposed system generates several types of listener responses: backchannels, repeats …

Human–human interaction consists of various nonverbal behaviors that are often emotion-
related. To establish rapport, it is essential that the listener respond to reactive emotion in a …

Social Robots need to communicate in a way that feels natural to humans if they are to
effectively bond with the users and provide an engaging interaction. Inline with this natural …

In this paper, we present an electrically driven childlike android named ibuki equipped with
a wheeled mobility unit that enables it to move in a real environment. Since the unit includes …

Recent years have seen the increased use of artificial intelligence technologies such as
conversational agents. Conversational agents, also referred to as chatbots, are used to …

Dialogue capability is an important functionality of robot agents: interactive social robots
must not only help humans in their everyday tasks, they also need to explicate their own …

As the aging of society continues to accelerate, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has received more
and more attention from not only medical but also other fields, such as computer science …