Development of Smart Device Interlocked Robot Partners for Information Support and Smart Recommendation

Recently, various types of communication robots have been developed all over the world to make up for a lack of human labor. The purpose of communication robots is to provide services such as information support including facility guide and recommendation at airports and shopping centers, nursing homes for elderly people. In general, the effective integration of various modules is important to aim for rapid practical application in an aging society. However, it takes much cost to introduce communication robots because of software customization and contents design for information service in addition to the maintenance cost of software and hardware. Furthermore, we have to pay attention to safe physical interaction and considerable communication of communication robots with people. In this paper, we develop a robot partner for information support and propose a new method to recommend various information flexibly according to human intention.