Abstract
Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous advances in hardware performance, computer graphics, robotics technology, and artificial intelligence. New interdisciplinary research fields have brought forth cognitive robotics aimed at building a new generation of control systems and providing robots with social, empathetic and affective capabilities. This paper presents the design, implementation, and test of a human-inspired cognitive architecture for social robots. State-of-the-art design approaches and methods are thoroughly analyzed and discussed, cases where the developed system has been successfully used are reported. The tests demonstrated the system’s ability to endow a social humanoid robot with human social behaviors and with in-silico robotic emotions.
Highlights
We have found that individuals’ interaction with computers, television and new media are fundamentally social and natural, just like interactions in real life. [...] Everyone expects media to obey a wide range of social and natural rules
The statistical analysis of the physiological signals highlighted that the children with Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), by showing different affective reactions compared to the control group, were more sensible to the treatment [41,42]
We have provided social robotics definitions, descriptions, methods, and use cases
Summary
We have found that individuals’ interaction with computers, television and new media are fundamentally social and natural, just like interactions in real life. [...] Everyone expects media to obey a wide range of social and natural rules. [...] Everyone expects media to obey a wide range of social and natural rules All these rules come from the world of interpersonal interaction, and from studies [on] how people interact with [the] real world. We have been always fascinated by the creation of machines that have human traits and emotional, sensitive, and communicative capabilities similar to humankind. This was clearly highlighted by the creation of artificial creatures able to interact with us and to move around our physical and social spaces, which has inspired writers, producers, and directors since the dawn of the science fiction genre. We will report a detailed description of the implementation of a social robot as a case study, i.e., the FACE (Facial Automaton for Conveying Emotions) robot, which is a highly expressive humanoid robot endowed with a bio-inspired actuated facial mask
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