Emotional communication between humans and the autonomous robot WAMOEBA-2 (Waseda amoeba) which has the emotion model

In this paper, we discuss the communication between autonomous robots and h umans through the development of a robot which has an emotion model. The mo del depicts the endocrine system of humans and has four kinds of hormone pa rameters to adjust Various internal conditions such as motor output, coolin g fan output and sensor gain. We surveyed 126 visitors at the '97 Internati onal Robot Exhibition held in Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 1997) to evaluate their ps ychological impressions of the robot. As a result, the human friendliness o f the robot was confirmed and some factors of human-robot emotional communi cation were discovered.