TY - GEN
T1 - Communicating with SanTO - the first Catholic robot
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Pariasca, Franco
AU - Ramirez, Renzo
AU - Cerna, Javier
AU - Reutskiy, Vadim
AU - Rodriguez, Laureano
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - In the 1560s Philip II of Spain commissioned the realisation of a 'mechanical monk', a small humanoid automaton with the ability to move and walk. Centuries later, we present a Catholic humanoid robot. With the appearance of a statue of a saint and some interactive features, it is designed for Christian Catholic users for a variety of purposes. Its creation offers new insights on the concept of sacredness applied to a robot and the role of automation in religion. In this paper we present its concept, its functioning, and a preliminary test. A dialogue system, integrated within the multimodal communication consisting of vision, touch, voice and lights, drives the interaction with the users. We collected the first responses, particularly focused on the impression of sacredness of the robot, during an experiment that took place in a church in Peru.
AB - In the 1560s Philip II of Spain commissioned the realisation of a 'mechanical monk', a small humanoid automaton with the ability to move and walk. Centuries later, we present a Catholic humanoid robot. With the appearance of a statue of a saint and some interactive features, it is designed for Christian Catholic users for a variety of purposes. Its creation offers new insights on the concept of sacredness applied to a robot and the role of automation in religion. In this paper we present its concept, its functioning, and a preliminary test. A dialogue system, integrated within the multimodal communication consisting of vision, touch, voice and lights, drives the interaction with the users. We collected the first responses, particularly focused on the impression of sacredness of the robot, during an experiment that took place in a church in Peru.
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U2 - 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956250
DO - 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956250
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078825537
T3 - 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019
BT - 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 18 October 2019
ER -