Emergence of communication and society by androids.
This group studies developmental mechanisms of communication and evaluations of intelligence based on human subjects and the human society. We, humans, anthropomorphize the object for conversation. This is an essential human ability and a hint for investigating principles of communicative and intelligent machines by engineering and scientific approaches. This idea guides us to a new cross-interdisciplinary framework called Android Science. In this framework, we tackle the following issues
Development of Man-Made Man (M3: M cube): In order to realize robots that can be accepted by the human society, we need to develop a human-like robot. The robot developed in this project is different from other robotlike humanoids and very humanlike androids. The robot M3 is going to have about 50 pneumatic actuators, soft skin covering the whole body, and various humanlike sensors with a child size.