Abstract
We propose a health monitoring robot which seeks an unconscious body condition measurement in daily life. The robot interacts with humans and measures human's body conditions through physical contact. This paper describes on a prototype robot in which we embedded some near-infrared sensors for detecting plethysmogram pulses. Those embedded sensors has a dumper system for keeping the contact state stable between the sensor and the tissue. The prototype robot consists of mechanical parts and foliage plants and we assume that the robot prompts humans to take care of it. Experimental results showed that the robot monitors plethysmogram pulses in some situation including physical contact with human.
