Softbank Robotics Europe

Taylor Veltrop

Jérôme Monceaux

Bruno Maisonnier

Gabriele Barbieri

Gwennaël Gate

David Houssin

Guillaume Jacob

Mathias Le Borgne

Thibault Hervier

A humanoid robot which is capable of surveying its environment, notably to determine when humans are present and to engage in Activities with humans corresponding to an evaluation of their desires is provided. An operating system of the robot is configured in the robot to process the information received by Extractors (sensors and processing capabilities), to list Activities (gestures, dialogs, etc. . . . ) which are prioritized as a function of the current conditions and the history of engagement with the humans, to decide which Activity is to be launched and to have Actuators execute the Activity. Safeguard conditions of the robot are also taken into account in the list of Activities to be performed.

Humanoid robot with an autonomous life capability

A method of handling a software application on a robot comprising a plurality of installed software application, a software application being associated with a predefined semantic description, the method comprises the steps of extracting one or more patterns from an audio dialog with a human user; an audio dialog comprising sentences and a pattern comprising predefined sentences; comparing one or more patterns with the semantic descriptions of the software applications; selecting a software application based on the performed comparisons; and executing the selected software application. Described developments comprise software application execution rules, predefined or dynamically defined execution rules, the audio listing of the installed applications depending on environmental parameters, the optional use of complimentary display means and the installation of a missing application. Associated systems are described.

Executing software applications on a robot

A computer-implemented method of handling an audio dialog between a robot and a human user comprises: during the audio dialog, receiving audio data and converting audio data into text data; in response to text data, determining a dialog topic, the dialog topic comprising a dialog content and a dialog voice skin; wherein a dialog content comprises a plurality of sentences; determining a sentence to be rendered in audio by the robot; receiving a modification request of the determined dialog sentence. Described developments for example comprise different regulation schemes (e.g. open-loop or closed-loop), the use of moderation rules (centralized or distributed) and the use of priority levels and/or parameters depending on the environment perceived by the robot.

Methods and systems for managing dialogs of a robot

A method of handling humanoid robot interaction with human is disclosed. The method allows systematically storing all events detected within a humanoid robot environment, and classifying as temporary stimuli. When the robot is set to analyze the events, a process allows selecting one preferred stimulus among the stored stimuli and depending on the current activity of the robot, one or more actions are generated for the robot.

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