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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Design of an Articulation Mechanism for an Infant-like Vocal Robot “Lingua”
Authors : Nobutsuna Endo, Tomohiro Kojima, Yuki Sasamoto, Hisashi Ishihara, Takato Horii, Minoru Asada
Published in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Spoken language is one of the important means for humans to communicate with others. In developmental psychology, it is suggested that an infant develops it through verbal interaction with caregivers by observation experiments [1]. However, what kind of underlying mechanism works for that and how caregiver’s behavior affects on this process has not been fully investigated yet since it is very difficult to control the infant vocalization. On the other hand, there are several constructive approaches to understand the mechanisms by using infant robots with abilities equivalent to those of human infants, as a controllable platform [2].