Method for controlling robot, robot, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Yahata
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Abstract
A control method of a robot according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes receiving from an external computer information that instructs the robot to encourage a user to exercise; sensing a user's current position; moving the robot into a predetermined area that includes the user's current position; causing the robot to perform a gesture to encourage the user to exercise; monitoring behavior of the user; and performing driving of the robot along with exercise of the user, based on a result of the monitoring.
Claims16
A method for a first computer that can communicate with a robot, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a second computer that is different from the first computer, request information that requests the robot to encourage a user to exercise, when it is determined by the second computer that an amount of exercise taken by the user does not satisfy a predetermined target amount after a message for encouraging exercise is transmitted to the user;
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- transmitting, to the robot, instruction information that instructs the robot to perform a gesture for encouraging the user to exercise according to the request information.
A method for a second computer that can communicate with a first computer associated with a robot, the method comprising:
- transmitting a message for encouraging exercise to a user;
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- when determining that an amount of exercise taken by the user does not satisfy a predetermined target amount after transmission of the message, transmitting, to the first computer, request information that requests the robot to encourage the user to exercise, to cause the first computer to transmit, to the robot, instruction information that instructs the robot to perform a gesture for encouraging the user to exercise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.