The Happy Mini @ Girls Art Project team, has been participating in the @Home league of the RoboCup Japan Open since 2014, and participated in the RoboCup 2015, 2016, and 2017[1] world competition. The team got the 9th, 8th, and 9th places in the competition.
The goal of Happy Mini @ Girls Art Project is to create a home robot which will make family and society happy. We believe our resource and technology are not meant to build war or battle robots. Through robotics, we aim to promote a socie-tal change in which we take full advantage of engineering and science to help sustain household happiness allowing family members to share the enjoyment of life in a beloved community. As a home robot, Happy mini has unique features: its cute design (e.g., super proportionally large and shiny eyes) which creates a warm sense of friendliness and reduced weight which makes it easy for a typical adult to carry around. One of its leading functions is to read a picture book to children. While typical storytelling requires someone to be a reader, Happy mini enables both parents and children to be listeners so that they can share the same perspective. Another popular function is a multilingual learning: Happy mini helps children learn a new foreign language by interacting with them in that lan-guage. Having participated in the RoboCup World Cup in the home robot league three times, we have come to realize that the robotics designs tend to be skewed; most of the robots at the conference were heavy and large, and most notably masculine. It was common to find little children getting scared and running …show more content…
We define the technology required for home robot, same as defined in the Ro-boCup@home rulebook: “Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Naviga-tion and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer, Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Be-haviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System
The goal of Happy Mini @ Girls Art Project is to create a home robot which will make family and society happy. We believe our resource and technology are not meant to build war or battle robots. Through robotics, we aim to promote a socie-tal change in which we take full advantage of engineering and science to help sustain household happiness allowing family members to share the enjoyment of life in a beloved community. As a home robot, Happy mini has unique features: its cute design (e.g., super proportionally large and shiny eyes) which creates a warm sense of friendliness and reduced weight which makes it easy for a typical adult to carry around. One of its leading functions is to read a picture book to children. While typical storytelling requires someone to be a reader, Happy mini enables both parents and children to be listeners so that they can share the same perspective. Another popular function is a multilingual learning: Happy mini helps children learn a new foreign language by interacting with them in that lan-guage. Having participated in the RoboCup World Cup in the home robot league three times, we have come to realize that the robotics designs tend to be skewed; most of the robots at the conference were heavy and large, and most notably masculine. It was common to find little children getting scared and running …show more content…
We define the technology required for home robot, same as defined in the Ro-boCup@home rulebook: “Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Naviga-tion and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer, Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Be-haviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System