The World Robot Summit is a robot Olympics and aims to be held in a different country every four years from 2020. The concept of the Plant Disaster Prevention challenge is daily inspections, checks, and emergency response in industrial plants, and in this competition, robots must carry out these types of missions in a mock-up plant. The concept of the Tunnel Disaster Response and Recovery challenge is emergency response to tunnel disasters, and is a simulation competition whereby teams compete to show their ability to deal with disasters, by collecting information and removing debris. The Standard Disaster Robotics challenge assesses, in the form of a contest, the standard performance levels of a robot that are necessary for disaster prevention and emergency response. The World Robot Summit Preliminary Competition was held at Tokyo Big Sight in October 2018, and 36 teams participated in the Disaster Robotics Category. UGVs and UAVs contended the merits of new technology for solving complex problems, using core technologies such as mobility, sensing, recognition, performing operations, human interface, autonomous intelligence etc., as well as system integration and implementation of strategies for completing missions, gaining high-level results.

In line with the effects of Japan's aging society with fewer children, the number of elderly with dementia who live alone and without care is increasing, therefore at-home care is beginning to be required. Doll therapy is a way of at-home dementia care. Doll therapy can help improve mental status of the elderly, because their logical and rational thinking is activated by imaging the child care experience with feeling and emotion at the times. In this research, we consider using Babyloid, a baby type robot, for doll therapy. As a first step of this research, we investigated whether elderly people in a nursing home for the elderly home accept Babyloid.

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