Development of a partner robot aiming at reducing the psychological burden of child-care environment

Abstract

In recent years, parents with stress on child rearing are increasing in Japan. This is considered to be caused by parents who are raising their children cannot gain cooperation from people around them by nuclearization of the family accompanying changes in industrial form, increase in single households, and changes in local communities. Therefore, we developed a prototype of robot and robot services with the aim of reducing the psychological burden of child rearing environment. Thereby we aim to build a childcare environment where parents who are raising children are full of smiles. In this paper, we report the concept of the robot, the system configuration, and the result of the demonstration.