Babyloid

Masayoshi Kanoh

doi:10.20965/jrm.2014.p0513

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JRM Vol.26 No.4 pp. 513-514

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2014.p0513

(2014)

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Babyloid

Masayoshi Kanoh

Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Chukyo University, 101-2 Yagoto Honmachi, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8666, Japan

Received:

October 29, 2014

Accepted:

May 19, 2014

Published:

August 20, 2014

Keywords:

human-robot interaction, robot assisted therapy, doll therapy, welfare care

Abstract

Babyloid

Babyloid is a robot whose purpose is to relieve the psychological distress in elderly patients and patients needing long-term care by having them take care of it. Unlike general robots, which seek to be able to do all tasks in the manner of human beings, Babyloid was designed so that it cannot do anything. However, it tries to satisfy its self-sufficiency by expressing psychological and physiological states through crying, showing bad mood, etc.

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M. Kanoh, “Babyloid,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.26 No.4, pp. 513-514, 2014.

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References

[1] M. Kanoh and T. Shimizu, “Developing A Robot Babyloid That Cannot Do Anything,” J. of RSJ, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 76-83, 2011 (in Japanese).
[2] K. Wada and T. Shibata, “Living With Seal Robots – Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Influences on the Elderly at a Care House,” IEEE Trans. Robotics, Vol.23, No.5, pp. 972-980, 2007.

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[1] [1] M. Kanoh and T. Shimizu, “Developing A Robot Babyloid That Cannot Do Anything,” J. of RSJ, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 76-83, 2011 (in Japanese).

[2] [2] K. Wada and T. Shibata, “Living With Seal Robots – Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Influences on the Elderly at a Care House,” IEEE Trans. Robotics, Vol.23, No.5, pp. 972-980, 2007.