Development of a Steward Robot for Intelligent Sweet Home

Development of a Steward Robot for Intelligent Sweet Home

  This paper introduces a new service robot, named Joseph, which can be categorized as a steward robot. As an intermediate agent between residents and a complex smart home environment, this robot can provide the residents with easily accessible, convenient, and cost effective environment for independent living. The learning capability and emotional interaction of the robot can enhance human-friendliness in various tasks. A learning system can provide personalized services by accumulating knowledge of the resident"s behavior patterns in daily activities. An emotional interaction system generates facial expression to be more human-friendly. We have developed two types of steward robots: software type and hardware type. The hardware type robot has a mobile platform and two robotic arms so as to perform various tasks with mobility.