Robot based videophone service system for young children

This paper presents a videophone service system based on the robot for young children. The proposed system for videophone service consists of a server, which mediates and manages client devices, and a robot, which acts as a client device. Robot in this paper is implemented to the embedded system, which has ARM11 hardware and embedded Linux for the OS. To make an easy phone call for young children, the robot video phone (RVP) module composed of the robot videophone main module and two kinds of libraries is proposed. To avoid the complicated usage of robot based videophone service for young children, the RFID technology is adopted. As young children touch a RFID card to the robot, the robot can make a call to the specific number, which is contained in the RFID card.