Abstract
The purpose of this research is to develop multi-talented humanoid robots, based on technologies featuring high-computing and control abilities, to perform onstage. It has been a worldwide trend in the last decade to apply robot technologies in theatrical performance. The more robot performers resemble human beings, the easier it becomes for the emotions of audiences to be bonded with robotic performances. Although all kinds of robots can be theatrical performers based on programs, humanoid robots are more advantageous for playing a wider range of characters because of their resemblance to human beings. Thus, developing theatrical humanoid robots is becoming very important in the field of the robot theatre. However, theatrical humanoid robots need to possess the same versatile abilities as their human counterparts, instead of merely posing or performing motion demonstrations onstage, otherwise audiences will easily become bored. The four theatrical robots developed for this research have successfully performed in a public performance and participated in five programs. All of them were approved by most audiences.
Highlights
As robots are developed to offer highly integrated and complicated features, their applications are very diverse
Instead of human performers, to entertain audiences have gradually evolved into a new application and onstage robot performances soon became a new form of communication and interaction between human beings and robots
The objective of this study is to develop such multi‐talented, theatrical humanoid robot performers
Summary
As robots are developed to offer highly integrated and complicated features, their applications are very diverse. Examples of important onstage performance robots in the last decade include the following: Sony demonstrated QRIO [1] at the end of 2003. This robot can nimbly perform a group Japanese fan dance [2]. In November of that year, Osaka University hosted I, Worker [13] on campus for the first time to feature two Wakamarus, a double‐wheel‐based humanoid robot developed by Mitsubishi [14]. Osaka University featured Geminoid‐F [25], an android robot, in Android‐Human Theater and organized the participation of Geminoid‐F and human performers in Sayonara, a drama hosted in Tokyo [26], and later worldwide tours. The choices of performance sites are less limited and the design of programs can be flexible
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