以下引用的是一些英文的介绍，后面空了给大家翻译下，再做成个专题。

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一、What kind of robot is it? - Here are its basic capabilities

1、Finding and identifying people (facial recognition technology) Finding and identifying people (facial recognition technology) Face detection It finds people from the images on its CCD camera by means of image recognition technology. Facial identification It can discriminate among and memorize the faces of up to ten people. Face tracking By tracking a face that it has found, it interacts while always looking at the face. Condition detection feedback When it cannot see a face well or if the distance or location is not satisfactory, it will adjust the distance on its own or tell the person," It's too dark."

[ 本帖最后由 ibot 于 2006-12-13 12:19 AM 编辑 ]

2、Human speech recognition and interacting with language (speech recognition technology)

Speech recognition	Approximately 650 words of human language can be differentiated using speech recognition technology.
Condition detection feedback	When the surroundings are noisy or the sounds spoken to the PaPeRo are too loud or too soft, this is recognized and communicated to the user.

3、Its character and actions change, depending on how it is approached.

People have varying likeability and friendliness, and PaPeRo changes its reactions to each person depending on how it is approached. In addition, it has models for action reflecting initiative, desire, etc. and it changes its character depending on its interaction with people up to that point. If it is greatly praised for dancing, PaPeRo becomes somethng that really loves dancing and if its partner doesn not interact with it at all, it becomes lazy and does not do anything.PaPeRo also expresses its own feelings by dancing.

4、Spontaneous suggestions and autonomous actions

When PaPeRo is not talking with people it engages in autonomous activities such as walking around the room at will, connecting to the Internet and obtaining the latest information or dancing on its own. The autonomous activities it engages in vary according to its character.

5、Improving the development environment

PaPeRo is a prototype that advances research and development with the intention of the robot's being a partner with human beings and its being able to live together with them.During the research, prototypes were made by adding various characters and functions. The repetition of experiments is very important.PaPeRo can create movements and reactions using a visual base editor that is easy to understand directly. The consideration of "mechanisms" whereby ideas can be created more quickly is very important to us.

二、What does it do? - Introduction of main functions
PaPeRo is a little helper during the day and has fun games to play together.In addition, when consulted with questions like "Is today a good day for dates?" or "Is today a good day for a drive?" it connects to the Internet, obtains the weather report or information on the person's fortune and then say if today is a "recommended day."Further, if it is in a good mood it will dance to please you.Here we introduce the main functions that PaPeRo can perform.

1、Functions related to helping, part 1

Announcement of weather reports (today's weather, tomorrow's weather, the week's weather) Reading the news (society, political and economic, sport, arts, etc.) messages ・TV remote control timer

2、Functions related to helping, part 2

Consultation (days recommended for dates, for drives, etc.) What kind of day today is Today's date and time Psychological quizzes Health check-ups Predictions for today or tomorrow, etc. (overall fortune, work fortune, love fortune, meeting people)

3、Fun game functions

Dances mimicry (vacuum cleaner, pot, ramen noodles, motocycle, bicycle, bunny hop, space alien, etc.) riddles quizzes a daruma doll fell down poetry card guessing game bomb game Lock-on game (something like Asteroids) nervous breakdown fortune telling roulette and others