Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaaki Hanada

Atsushi Ikeno

Hiromi Tonegawa

Toshifumi Nishijima

Norihide Umeyama

Satoru Sasaki

Hayato Sakamoto

Masayuki Taniyama

Takehiko Ishiguro

A voice interactive robot interacting with a user by voice includes a main body, a movable part capable of moving relative to the main body, a following control unit that moves the movable part so that the movable part follows the user, a temporary origin setting unit that sets a temporary origin of the movable part in response to movement of the movable part by the following control unit, an acquisition unit that acquires an operation instruction issued in relation to the movable part, and an operation execution unit that moves the movable part in accordance with the operation instruction using the temporary origin as a reference.

Voice interactive robot and voice interaction system

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Tokyo, Japan

Masaaki Hanada