Robot Designer or Robot Creator

by Robot Designer, Tomotaka Takahashi

A robot is the first machine that can communicate with human beings in machine invention history. Thus, a robot is required to have a friendly appearance and natural motions to make people feel that the robot is lifelike.A humanoid robot is a human friendly interface between humans and machines. Examples include electricappliances, home security systems, computers, and all cyber networks. Robots have the potential to have a greatimpact to the live of humans. Robot were typically be developed by a researcher for researchers to work insideof a research laboratory. Due to this, robot design is not recognized as an important issue. It is unfortunate that sometimes robot design sketches are drawn as physically impossible by existing industrial designers oranimation designers who are not familiar with the internal workings of a robot. After the initial drawing, tocreate actual robot, these sketches are greatly modified by engineers who are not familiar with design. This process does not work, however. Therefore, it is important to develop the field of "Robot Design", and toeducate specialists, as a "Robot Designer" or "Robot Creator". Currently, robots are becoming more common asa daily product. Presenting a well-designed robot can grow future consumers of robots. Most researchers want toshare their experience; indeed, they are happy to do so.