Robofriend: An Adpative Storytelling Robotic Teddy Bear -- Technical Report
Robotics
2023-01-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
In this paper we describe Robofriend, a robotic teddy bear for telling stories to young children. Robofriend adapts its behavior to keep the childrens' attention using reinforcement learning.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.01576,
title = {Robofriend: An Adpative Storytelling Robotic Teddy Bear -- Technical Report},
author = {Ido Glanz and Matan Weksler and Erez Karpas and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01576},
year = {2023}
}
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