Yui是能远程操控的全身体感机器人,让远端交互更像面对面。
Cybernetic Android Avatar "Yui": System Integration, Field Deployment, and Evaluation

- 用头戴设备或摄像头操控,实现全身动作与表情同步
- 在展会运行超1130小时,用户普遍感觉有共在感
- 适合教育、公共互动等需要真实社交信号的场景
远程通信虽已普及,但在许多社交场景中仍难以营造共享物理空间的感觉,也难以传递丰富的非语言线索。本研究提出“Yui”,一种集成操作端沉浸式遥操作系统与交互端类人社交信号输出的全身体感机器人。Yui结合了55自由度全身机械结构与先前开发的类人头部、面部表情与视线控制、上半身及手臂运动、手部执行器和移动平台,可通过头戴式显示器界面(沉浸模式)或基于网络摄像头的桌面界面进行操控。我们通过三次真实场景部署评估系统:大阪关西世博会长期公开展示、小学生远程教育交流,以及面向普通公众的互动研究。在世博会部署期间,两台设备累计运行约1131小时,验证了系统的可行性,也暴露了维护挑战。公众研究中,操作员与对话者均表示有良好共在感,并愿意继续使用;对话者对机器人的类人度、情感与意图传达能力评价积极。结果表明该系统对一般操作员可用,但在精确控制方面仍有提升空间。这些发现为可社会部署的全身机器人化身提供了实地证据与设计启示。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Remote communication technologies have become widely used; however, supporting a sense of shared physical space and conveying rich non-verbal cues remain challenging in many social interaction scenarios. This study presents "Yui," a full-body cybernetic android avatar designed to integrate operator-side immersive teleoperation with interlocutor-side human-like social signaling. Yui combines a 55-degrees of freedom full-body mechanism with a previously developed android head, facial expression and gaze control, upper-body and arm motion, hand actuation, and a mobile platform. It can be operated through either the immersive mode using a head mounted display-based interface or desktop mode using a webcam-based interface. We evaluated the system through three real-world deployments: a long-term public exhibition at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan; a remote educational exchange between elementary school students; and a public interaction study with general participants. During the Expo deployment, two units accumulated approximately 1131 h of operation, demonstrating both operational feasibility and maintenance challenges. In the public study, both operators and interlocutors reported positive impressions of co-presence and willingness to use the system. Interlocutors also rated the avatar positively in terms of human likeness and the transmission of emotions and intentions. The results indicate usability for general operators while suggesting room for improvement in precise controllability. These findings provide field-derived evidence and design implications for socially deployable full-body android avatars.
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