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This paper presents a simple four-legged robot platform that can transform a smartphone or tablet into an autonomous walking social robot. Smartphones are already designed to be easy to interact with and to assist humans in everyday activities. They are also equipped with impressive computational resources and powerful sensors. As such they can serve as a powerful controller for a robot. By giving them four legs they have the added abilities to walk about our environments and express themselves using posture and body language. An example of such a four-legged robot is described in this paper along with a preliminary exploration of its capabilities as a social robot. Simple walking and posturing are demonstrated in ways that show how such a robot can better play the role of companion or assistant in the office or home. The platform is designed and built using inexpensive off-the-shelf components and can serve as an affordable development system for students and practitioners who wish to study social robotics.
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Diano, D.A., Claveau, D. (2015). A Four-Legged Social Robot Based on a Smartphone. In: Kim, JH., Yang, W., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16841-8_12
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