Design of Taking a Walk with a Robot that Receives Care from a Person and Indirectly Mediates Communication with Strangers
Kanae Kochigami,Kei Okada,Masayuki Inaba,Kanae Kochigami,Kei Okada,Masayuki Inaba
We report the results of our study on whether taking a walk with a child-like robot that a person takes care of can generate interaction with the surrounding people whom the person has never met before. As the number of single-person households increases, it is expected that more people will live with not only robots that can be useful for people but also robots that people can take care of. Our s...
