Wiki source code of Humanoid Robot

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1 **The benefit of humanoid robots**
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4 **Which robot suits best**
5 Our group choose to use the Pepper Robot, since the main object of our project is to use the Pepper to prevent PwDs from leaving out alone. The key idea is to use music and dialog to persuade the PwD to stay inside.
6 Miro is not suitable for this case, since Miro does not have the ability to talk like human being, which means it can not have a conversation with PwDs. Furthermore, Miro is a dog-like robot which is too small, people with dementia can also have visual difficulties because the dementia affects the parts of their brain that handle visual information coming from the eyes. This means they will have visual problems, but have healthy eyes. This would leads that the Miro is easily ignored by the PwD.
7 Pepper is a Human-sized humanoid robot which is the highest between these three provided Robot,
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10 [[image:pepper_waving.png]]
11 **How Pepper is used**
12 One function is using the Pepper to persuade the PwD to keep inside with suggested music according to time of the day and dialog flow,
13 another function is to notify the caretaker if the PwD insists to go out or wants to go out for a walk.