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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2002
Masahiro Fujita, Saitama, JP;
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Rika Horinaka, Tochigi, JP;
Jun Yokono, Tokyo, JP;
Gabriel Costa, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Shimomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuki Minamino, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A robot apparatus causes the emotion in a feeling part ( ) to be changed based on the information acquired by a perception part ( ) to manifest the behavior of information acquisition as autonomous behavior. The robot apparatus includes a behavior control part for causing the robot apparatus to manifest a language acquisition behavior and a meaning acquisition part. The robot apparatus also includes a control part for performing the behavior control of pointing its object of learning. The robot apparatus causes changes in internal states, which are ascribable to the object, to be stored in a memory part in association with the object.