Design Space Survey on Social Robotics in the Market

Valentina Ramírez; Dominique Deuff; Xela Indurkhya; Gentiane Venture

doi:10.1007/s10846-022-01624-1

Design Space Survey on Social Robotics in the Market

Valentina Ramírez^*
, Dominique Deuff
, Xela Indurkhya
, Gentiane Venture

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Socially interactive robots are being introduced in daily life as common objects that facilitate people’s life. A wide range of possibilities are offered and the trends show a growing market. In this survey 40 commercial robots were analysed to evaluate the state of the art from a design space perspective, aspects like embodiment, task, social role, context of use, DOF (Degrees of Freedom) and user studies performed on the robot are included. As a result, a clear design pattern was identified: an egg-shaped, white plastic robot with a rendered face that displays expression of emotions and a speech interface is the common base of the majority of the social robots available in the market. The preference for this kind of embodiment is not even studied nor documented in the literature and varies according to the target group and culture.

Original language	English
Article number	25
Journal	Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications
Volume	105
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-022-01624-1
Publication status	Published - 17 May 2022
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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This researcher is supported by the Japanese Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for scientific research (C) 19K12167.

Keywords

Design space
Embodiment design
Social robots

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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