Review Article
Designing Humanoid Robots with Novel Roles and Social Abilities
Maya Dimitrova1,2* and Hiroaki Wagatsuma2,31Institute of Systems Engineering and Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Akad, Bulgaria
2Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
3RIKEN BSI, 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
- *Corresponding Author:
- Maya Dimitrova
Institute of Systems Engineering and
Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(BAS), Akad, G. Bonchev, Str., Bl. 2
POB 79, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: +359-882-866-270
E-mail: dimitrova@iser.bas.bg
Received Date:January 30, 2015; Accepted Date: January 31, 2015; Published Date: February 10, 2015
Citation: Dimitrova M, Wagatsuma H (2015) Designing Humanoid Robots with Novel Roles and Social Abilities. Lovotics 3:112. doi:10.4172/2090-9888.1000112
Copyright: © 2015 Dimitrova M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This mini-review describes aspects of human-robot interaction to be taken into account when designing humanoid robots with novel roles and social abilities. The review accentuates the psychological complexity that is necessary to be made inherent in the design of humanoid robotic technology. Some recent studies of robot acceptance are summarized leading to the proposal for more complex synthetic sensors being needed in novel humanoid robots. The perspective is designing based on modeling attitude (the social level of human robot interaction), but not opinion (psychological level), which can be a valuable aim for humanoid robotics.
