When a robot community has a biological autonomy capability, at which stage a person feels a threat

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12396
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Ohsugi Kojune 静岡理工科大学, 情報学部, 教授 (00201377)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ロボット / 自律性 / 人工知能 / 生命 / ＡＩ / 生物 / 認識 / 感情

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Three robots (Pepper) were used, and various experiments related to the theme " Is it safe to give the robot autonomy? " were carried out. When presenting situations where the autonomic tendency was incrementally increased, it was showed that the degree to which a person feels danger or sense of crisis about robot behavior increases according to each stage. When introducing an objective numerical evaluation method in addition to the questionnaire survey and letting Pepper explain the nurse's work "guidance on hospitalization", the results of the content memory test were significantly higher in the explanation by real nurses. And the effect of concentration on the presenter was shown. In addition, "Arrow matching battle game" was done in three ways, human being opponent, PC opponent, Pepper an opponent. As a result of measuring the entropy (information amount) in each case, there was no significant difference between the three.

Free Research Field

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