Humanoid robot
AssigneeINTERMAN Corporation
InventorShigeki UETABIRA
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Abstract
A humanoid robot capable of identifying an individual in a natural way is described. This humanoid robot shakes a hand of a person to acquire biological information of the person and identify the individual person. Particularly, a near infrared light emitting device and a near infrared sensor are installed in a hand of the humanoid robot to irradiate a hand of a human being with near infrared light emitted from the near infrared light emitting device and detect a vein pattern by the near infrared sensor. The individual person can be identified by recording and collating this vein pattern.
Claims10
1-7. (canceled)
A humanoid robot comprising:
- a hand having a plurality of finger members provided with joints and drive mechanisms and capable of performing a handshake with a hand of a human being;
- a joint position sensor configured to detect a position of at least one of the joints;
- an information recording device configured to record the joint position detected by the joint position sensor;
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- an information processing apparatus configured to compare the joint position of the hand of the human being recorded in the information recording device in advance and the joint position detected by the joint position sensor when shaking a hand of a human being to be personally identified, wherein
- the joint position comparison result by the information processing apparatus is used to perform personal identification of the human being.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.