Preliminary Field Trial for Teleoperated Communication Robots

This paper introduces a "teleoperated communication robot" whose unique point is that its language component is performed by an operator to avoid the automatic recognition difficulty of spoken language. On the other hand, conceptually, its nonverbal behavior will be autonomously controlled. One important point is to identify whether ordinary people will accept this type of communication robot. Therefore, we conducted a preliminary field trial at a shopping center, which revealed positive perspectives as well as technical problems to be solved

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