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About Advanced RoboticsWhat's Advanced Robotics
Message from Editorial BoardDear Readers:
The key technology of human symbiotic robots is communications. It means not only that robot can get orders from human but also that robot can understand what the person intends in a cooperative work and the person can have mental interactions with robot. However, the communication and action of current robots are all designed by program. "Learning" and "growing" are often used for the description of some robot's features, however, the robot does not actually learn but the several programmed patterns let out the look of "learning" reactions. When the pattern is simple and plain, human gets bored easily and the communication between them does not go further. The function which evaluates and learns the environment is effective to make the communication wealthy enough for human, but it is still difficult to bring this function into practical use by the present technology, and easy pre-programming is the favored method. Pre-programming method also has its technical problems to make the communication smooth. Taking the relation between conversation and gestures for instance, it is difficult to communicate with a speaking-but-motionless robot. Even equipped with some simple gestures, there will be uncomfortable feeling by the unnatural blend of conversation and gesture. Thus, the combination of verbal and non-verbal communications is to be studied. Advanced Robotics (AR) has published several issues on the theme such as "Human-Robot Communication". We encourage all of you to submit papers on this theme and appreciate to receive proposals to organize the special issue.
Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Robotics
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In 1990s, some manufacturers have turned their heads to developing medical and
health care devices targeting the upcoming super-aging society, and some have
produced entertainment robots in accordance with the change in the sense of
values between work and living. These robots are in a new paradigm of human-robot symbiosis.
