Development and Evaluation of Interactive Humanoid Robots

Abstract

This paper presents our exploratory approach for the development and evaluation of interactive humanoid robots. We have developed an interactive humanoid robot that has a human-like body as the testbed of this embodied communication. Furthermore, many interactive behaviors have been implemented. This encourages people to treat the robot as a human child. Our evaluation approach is to measure the body movement interaction between a humanoid robot and humans and compare the results with traditional subjective evaluation. Through the evaluation experiments, we argue the performance of the developed interactive robots and provide perspectives for this new analytical method for human--robot interactio