Designing a Robot which Touches the User's Head with Intra-Hug Gestures

Abstract

There are a lot of positive benefits of hugging, and several studies have applied its application in human-robot interaction. However, due to the limitation of a robot performance, these robots only touched the human's back. In this study, we developed a hug robot, named "Moffuly-II." This robot can hug not only with intra-hug gestures, but also touch the user's back or head. This paper describes the robot system and the user's impression of hug with the robot.