Emotion Generation System Based on Users’ Emotion and Self-conscious for a Panda-type Robot

In this paper, a panda-type robot is developed which can generate different emotions responding to the emotions of the user and its self-conscious. User emotion recognition is realized by fusing multiple information from the user, including facial expressions, voice emotions and touching forces. The panda-type robot generates and expresses its emotion by integrating recognized users’ emotion and its self-conscious feelings. The effectiveness of the proposed system is confirmed by continuous interaction experiments.