Plenary talk June 29; The 3rdGeneration of Robotics: Ubiquitous Robot

This talk shows its possibility of implementation in real life through demonstrations using a Sobot, Rity: i) continuous interface between physical and virtual worlds ii) seamless transmission of Sobot between a PC and a Mobot, and iii) omnipresence of Sobot. Rity, developed at the Robot Intelligence Technology (RIT) Laboratory, KAIST, is a Sobot implemented as a 12 DOF artificial creature in the virtual 3D world created in a PC. It has virtual sensors to survive in the virtual world and physical sensors attached to the PC to interact with the real world. Based on sensor information it can express its emotion, and interact with human beings through a web camera in the real world. It can generate behaviors autonomously and has its own IP. This means that it can be accessed through a network at anywhere and anytime using any device. With this technique omnipresence of Sobot can be realized in a ubiquitous space. The eventual goal of this research is to integrate Sobot, Embot, and Mobot to build up a Ubibot so that ubiquitous services through it can be available in a ubiquitous era