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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2001
Hideki Nakakita, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoaki Kasuga, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Nakakita, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoaki Kasuga, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a robot which autonomously forms and performs an action plan in response to external factors without direct command input from an operator. When reading a story printed in a book or other print media or recorded in recording media or when reading a story downloaded through a network, the robot does not simply read every single word as it is written. Instead, the robot uses external factors, such as a change of time, a change of season, or a change in a user's mood, and dynamically alters the story as long as the changed contents are substantially the same as the original contents. As a result, the robot can read aloud the story whose contents would differ every time the story is read.