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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2011
Russell Irvin Sanchez, Seattle, WA (US);
Malek M. Chalabi, Seattle, WA (US);
Kordell B. Krauskopf, Redmond, WA (US);
Russell Irvin Sanchez, Seattle, WA (US);
Malek M. Chalabi, Seattle, WA (US);
Kordell B. Krauskopf, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards a robot device including a model that controls a robot's task-related operations to perform tasks and user-engagement operations to interact with the robot. The model controls the operating states, including transitioning from an autonomous task state to an engaged state based on current context determined from various stimuli, e.g., information received via sensors of the robot and/or learned data. The robot may seek to engage the user, the user may seek to engage the robot, or the user and robot may meet by chance in which either may attempt to initiate the engagement.