Evolutionary personalized robotic doll: GomDoll

Genetic robot is one of artificial creatures and has its own genome in which each chromosome consists of many genes that contribute to defining its personality. By using the concept of genetic robot, this paper proposes personalized robotic doll by applying evolutionary process to generate unique propensity, defined by its genome. A genome population is evolved such that it customizes the genome satisfying a propensity desired by user based on Big Five personality dimensions. Robotic doll has emotion and motivation to reflect its internal state and to provide human friendly interaction. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme, a bear-like robotic doll, GomDoll, is developed and the evolved genome is implanted to it to see its manner of internal and external responses to stimuli.