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A Boxed Soft Robot Conveying Emotions by Changing Apparent Stiffness of Its Lid

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2021)

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A social robot that convey its emotions by changing its apparent stiffness is presented herein. A user interacts with a box-shaped robot by pushing its lid. The apparent stiffness of the robot is controlled by an electromagnetic brake installed on the lid based on the emotional state of the robot. To control the stiffness, we implement two approaches: (i) control the reaction force when a user presses the lid; (ii) control the temporal restoring behavior when a user releases the lid. The experimental results show a capability of the robot in providing variable apparent stiffness and a potential in eliciting the emotional impact of users through haptic human-robot interactions.

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  1. Artificial intelligence laboratory, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Hiroya Kawai, Taku Hachisu, Masakazu Hirokawa & Kenji Suzuki

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  1. Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    Haizhou Li

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Wu

  4. Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

    Xiaorui Liu

  7. School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Dongyu Li

  8. Social Cognition Human-Robot Interaction, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Jairo Perez-Osorio

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Kawai, H., Hachisu, T., Hirokawa, M., Suzuki, K. (2021). A Boxed Soft Robot Conveying Emotions by Changing Apparent Stiffness of Its Lid. In: Li, H., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_50

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