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Toward the Realization of Robots that Exhibit Altruistic Behaviors

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2021)

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In this paper, we will discuss and investigate the conditions and requirements for future robots to be efficiently altruistic. Robots, which are integrated into our lives and become a part of society, will have to carefully balance their time between their labor and altruistic behaviors as human workers are used to do. First, we single out three essential points for achieving this balance: 1) The robot should perform altruistic actions without impacting the performance of its designated tasks more than allowed by its owner. 2) The robot should take into account its expected future workload when predicting the impact of engaging in an altruistic action. 3) The robot should take into account the benefit for the society when engaging in an altruistic action. Then, we propose a general behavioral model that makes it possible to achieve this balance. Simulation results show that a robot using the proposed behavioral model could carry out some altruistic actions and still be performing its assigned labor efficiently.

This research was supported by JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR17A2, Japan.

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  1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Hajime Katagiri, Jani Even & Takayuki Kanda

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  1. Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    Haizhou Li

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Wu

  4. Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

    Xiaorui Liu

  7. School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Dongyu Li

  8. Social Cognition Human-Robot Interaction, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Jairo Perez-Osorio

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Katagiri, H., Even, J., Kanda, T. (2021). Toward the Realization of Robots that Exhibit Altruistic Behaviors. In: Li, H., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_9

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