Microsoft Corporation
Robot gesture generation

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for robot gesture generation is described. Generally speaking, a concept corresponding to a utterance to be spoken by a robot is determined (204). After a concept is determined or selected, a symbolic representation of a gesture that corresponds to the determined concept is retrieved from a predetermined gesture library (206). Subsequently, the symbolic representation is provided to cause the robot to perform the gesture (208). In such way, a more natural, comprehensive and effective communication between human and robots may be achieved.