Title :
Chief cook and keepon in the bot´s funk
Author :
Sauser, Eric ; Michalowski, Marek ; Billard, Aude ; Kozima, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Learning Algorithms & Syst. Lab., EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Over the years, robots have been developed to help humans in their everyday life, from preparing food, to autism therapy [2]. To accomplish their tasks, in addition to their engineered skills, today´s robots are now learning from observing humans, from interacting with them [1]. Therefore, one may expect that one day, robots may develop a form of consciousness, and a desire for freedom. Hopefully, this desire will come with a wish for robots, to become an integral part of our human society. Until we can test this hypothesis, we present a fictional adventure of our robot friends: During an official human-robot interaction challenge, Keepon [2] and Chief Cook (a.k.a. Hoap-3) [1] decided to escape their original duties and joined their forces to drive humans into an entertaining and interactive activity that they often forget to practice: Dancing. Indeed, is there any better way for robots to establish a solid communication channel with humans, so that the traditional master-slave relation may turn into friendship?
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; learning (artificial intelligence); Chief Cook; Hoap-3; Keepon; communication channel; entertainment robotics; human-robot interaction challenge; interactive activity; master-slave relation; social robotics; Abstracts; Human-robot interaction; Social and entertainment robotics;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4393-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121