Abstract
In recent years, shortage of the labor force by low birthrate and rapidly aging becomes a serious problem. For this reason robots and robotic technologies are focused as the new labor force in such a situation. And when the robots enter in our daily life space for this purpose, it is thought that the affinities between the robots and human being are required. So we propose the communication by using gestures to enhance the affinities. Because of the reason, in this paper, we try to develop redundant 8-D.O.F manipulator with expressiveness equivalent to the human upper limb.
