Does an Animation Character Robot Increase Sales?

Matsumura, Reo; Shiomi, Masahiro; Hagita, Norihiro

doi:10.1145/3125739.3132596

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“…Therefore, Hatsuki presents a thorough embodiment of anime-character designs beyond previous works, thereby providing various novel interaction potentials. The novelty of Hatsuki can translate to profitability and create value to consumers, in a similar fashion to previous efforts within entertainment robots [4].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Although some proposed applications of Hatsuki have been investigated before (e.g. [24], [4]), we believe Hatsuki advances the state of the art through its unique design; Hatsuki can be designed to embody any virtual character, from anime or pop-culture, thereby enabling experiences beyond what has been mainly investigated in social robots. For example, the familiarity of users with anime figurines characters can be used as a pretext to initiate and carry out various tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is a scarcity of research literature that investigated potential applications of robotics within the Otaku culture. Especially, we believe that potential applications can span beyond previously investigated applications of entertainment robots, where they can directly contribute to business profitability and value creation [4], similarly to figurines.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation

Yang

Al-Sada

Chiu

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Japanese character figurines are popular and have pivot position in Otaku culture. Although numerous robots have been developed, less have focused on otaku-culture or on embodying the anime character figurine. Therefore, we take the first steps to bridge this gap by developing Hatsuki, which is a humanoid robot platform with anime based design. Hatsuki's novelty lies in aesthetic design, 2D facial expressions, and anime-style behaviors that allows it to deliver rich interaction experiences resembling anime-characters. We explain our design implementation process of Hatsuki, followed by our evaluations. In order to explore user impressions and opinions towards Hatsuki, we conducted a questionnaire in the world's largest anime-figurine event. The results indicate that participants were generally very satisfied with Hatsuki's design, and proposed various use case scenarios and deployment contexts for Hatsuki. The second evaluation focused on imitation learning, as such method can provide better interaction ability in the real world and generate rich, context-adaptive behavior in different situations. We made Hatsuki learn 11 actions, combining voice, facial expressions and motions, through neuron network based policy model with our proposed interface. Results show our approach was successfully able to generate the actions through selforganized contexts, which shows the potential for generalizing our approach in further actions under different contexts. Lastly, we present our future research direction for Hatsuki, and provide our conclusion.

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HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation

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Chiu

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“…These behavior patterns would mitigate the insufficiency of the current image and voice recognition technologies. We consider that childlike androids have the potential ability to establish understandable behavior patterns by learning from humans naturally. Existence To maintain fluent and efficient communication, sharing stories, or experiences are considered beneficial [34]. Humans have particular knowledge about what is to be children, as they also used to be children in the past.…”

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“…Existence To maintain fluent and efficient communication, sharing stories, or experiences are considered beneficial [34]. Humans have particular knowledge about what is to be children, as they also used to be children in the past.…”

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Development of ‘ibuki’ an electrically actuated childlike android with mobility and its potential in the future society

Nakata

Yagi

et al. 2021

Robotica

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In this paper, we present an electrically driven childlike android named ibuki equipped with a wheeled mobility unit that enables it to move in a real environment. Since the unit includes a vertical oscillation mechanism, the android can replicate the movements of the human center of mass and can express human-like upper-body movements even when moving by wheels. Moreover, providing 46 degrees of freedom enables it to perform various human-like physical expressions. The development of ibuki, as well as the implementation and testing of several functions, is described. Finally, we discuss the potential advantages and future research direction of a childlike mobile android.

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Karakuri Solutions and Industry 4.0

Kostrzewski

Nowak

2022

Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices

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Does an Animation Character Robot Increase Sales?

Cited by 10 publications

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HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation

HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation

Development of ‘ibuki’ an electrically actuated childlike android with mobility and its potential in the future society

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