Development of dancing robot and its subjective judgement.

摘要

Dancing robots are a kind of performance robots. It is not only to be able to dance but also to be able to make spectartors feel familiar and mild. For this purpose, this dancing robot was manufactured after consideration factors of subjective judgement. Image design technique was adopted for familiar shape and SMA actuator was adopted for smooth action of arms and legs. It was investigated that spectators' image for this dancing robot with Semantic Defferential Technique what was one of subjective judgement technique in psychology. This dancing robot's achivement was finally evaluated with a respect to its familality. As a conclusion of this development, it was indecated that Semantic Defferential Technique gave basis of psycological engineering design of performance robots.