Sony Corporation

Noritoshi Inoue

Masahiro Fujita

Makoto Inoue

Masashi Takeda

Hideki Noma

Katsuya Muramatsu

Takao Yamaguchi

Tetsuya Konishi

Tsunetaro Matsuoka

Kenichiro Ueki

The present invention makes it possible and easier to serve optimum robot components/devices/accessories by means of an information service system including personal terminal devices (A toC) connected to an information communication network via a telecommunication line, and a server () connected to the information communication network via the telecommunication line to cumulatively store information on components/devices/accessories available from a plurality of manufacturers (and) (third party) of components/devices/accessories of a robot, as classified according to the attributes of the components/devices/accessories and send, to the personal terminal devices (A toC) connected thereto, options information prepared based on the attribute of the cumulatively stored components/devices/accessories information and including a plurality of items for selection of a robot component.

Information providing system, information providing device, and system for controlling robot device

In an information processing device and method, and programs, firstly, new second inheritance data is created based on first inheritance data regulating the shape and/or behaviors of a virtual creature and secondly, the gene data of the virtual creature is diagnosed and a given value added is applied to the virtual creature when it is determined based on the diagnostic result that the gene data satisfies predetermined conditions and thirdly, information on parents of virtual creatures which are sequentially created by mixing and registered, is stored and a pedigree of a designated virtual creature is inquired into based on the information. On the other hand, a data storing device is provided with a first storage means for storing inheritance data to regulate the shape and/or behaviors of a virtual creature, a communication means for transmitting/receiving inheritance data to/from the outside, and a second storing means for storing the inheritance data of other virtual creatures via the communication means.

Information processing device and method, data holding device, and program

A robotic system, robot apparatus, and a control method are presented wherein behaviors suitable for a robot are embodied based on information distributed by a number of information distributing devices. Also, the robotic system, robot apparatus, and a control method are designed based on information distributed by the number of information distributing devices such that a robot is prohibited from embodying corresponding behaviors out of the behaviors the robot could embody, or that prohibition on the robot embodying corresponding behaviors is withdrawn. Furthermore, control data for the robot to generate behaviors can be modified to meet the desires of the robot and/or the user of the robot.

Method of controlling behaviors of pet robots

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Tokyo, Japan

Noritoshi Inoue