TY - GEN
T1 - On the development of the emotion expression humanoid robot WE-4RII with RCH-1
AU - Zecca, Massimiliano
AU - Roccella, Stefano
AU - Carrozza, Maria Chiara
AU - Miwa, Hiroyasu
AU - Itoh, Kazuko
AU - Cappiello, Giovanni
AU - Cabibihan, John John
AU - Matsumoto, Munemichi
AU - Takanobu, Hideaki
AU - Dario, Paolo
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - Among social infrastructure technologies, Robot technology (RT) is expected to play an important role in solving the problems of both decrease of birth rate and increase of elderly people in the 21st century, specially (but not only) in Japan where the average age of the population is rising faster than any other nation in the world. In order to achieve this objective, the new generation of personal robots should be capable of a natural communication with humans by expressing human-like emotion. In this sense, human hands play a fundamental rolein exploration, communication and interaction with objects and other persons. This paper presents the recent results of the collaboration between the Takanishi Lab of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, the Arts Lab of Scuola Superiore San't Anna, Pisa, Italy, and ROBOCASA, Tokyo, Japan. At first, the integration of the artificial hand RTR-2 of ARTS lab with the humanoid robotic platform WE-4R during ROBODEX2003 is presented. Then, the paper show the preliminary results of the development of a novel anthropomorphic hand for humanoid robotics RCH-1 (ROBOCASA Hand No.1) and its integration into a new humanoid robotic platform, named WE-4RII (Waseda Eye No.4 Refined II).
AB - Among social infrastructure technologies, Robot technology (RT) is expected to play an important role in solving the problems of both decrease of birth rate and increase of elderly people in the 21st century, specially (but not only) in Japan where the average age of the population is rising faster than any other nation in the world. In order to achieve this objective, the new generation of personal robots should be capable of a natural communication with humans by expressing human-like emotion. In this sense, human hands play a fundamental rolein exploration, communication and interaction with objects and other persons. This paper presents the recent results of the collaboration between the Takanishi Lab of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, the Arts Lab of Scuola Superiore San't Anna, Pisa, Italy, and ROBOCASA, Tokyo, Japan. At first, the integration of the artificial hand RTR-2 of ARTS lab with the humanoid robotic platform WE-4R during ROBODEX2003 is presented. Then, the paper show the preliminary results of the development of a novel anthropomorphic hand for humanoid robotics RCH-1 (ROBOCASA Hand No.1) and its integration into a new humanoid robotic platform, named WE-4RII (Waseda Eye No.4 Refined II).
KW - Artificial hand
KW - Emotional Expression
KW - Human-robot communication
KW - Humanoid robotics
KW - Personal robotics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:20244385973
SN - 0780388631
T3 - 2004 4th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 235
EP - 252
BT - 2004 4th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
T2 - 2004 4th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Y2 - 10 November 2004 through 12 November 2004
ER -