Verbal communication is an expanding field in robotics showing a significant increase in
both the industrial and research field. The application of verbal communication in robotics …

A mismatch between the user's expectations and the actual reality of social robots may
negatively impact the acceptance and use of the robot. Given that the use of personal robots …

Humans and animals undergo morphological development (MD) processes from infancy to
adulthood that have been shown to facilitate learning. However, most of the work on …

A talking and singing robot which adaptively learns the vocalization skill by means of an
auditory feedback learning algorithm is being developed. The robot consists of motor …

Voice is used as primary media in the human communication. It is employed not only in
simple daily communication, but also for the logical discussions and the expression of …

We present a unified approach for speech production and recognition based on articulatory
motor representations. The approach is inspired by the motor theory and the discovery of …

A talking and singing robot which adaptively learns the vocalization skill by an auditory
feedback learning is being developed. The fundamental frequency and the spectrum …

We introduce a construct called “humanness sensitivity,” which we define as the ability to
recognize uniquely human characteristics. To evaluate the construct, we used a “concurrent …

This work presents a developmental and ecological approach to language acquisition in
robots, which has its roots in the interaction between infants and their caregivers. We show …

The objective of this research is to construct a two-wheeled robot that can autonomously
read music and sing songs with vocal voice. A musical notation editor was created so that …