Historically, robots first found application in factories and plants. Until recently, the most noticeable examples of robot systems directly sold to the consumer were limited to edutainment systems (e.g., NAO [1]), automated chore robots [26], and social telepresence platforms [27]. Initially, telepresence robots consisted of a mobile base with an interactive screen. Today, following a trend of anthropomorphization of technology, human-like upper bodies have begun to replace those simple screens (e.g., Pepper [2] and R1 [3]) and share the same social communication modalities of humans, e.g., body posture, gestures, gaze direction, and facial expressions. Unfortunately, social robots are mostly designed to speak and make gestures and have limited capabilities when it comes to physically interacting with people and their surrounding environments.

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Alter-Ego：一种具有功能上拟人化上身的移动机器人，专为身体互动而设计。

从历史上看，机器人首先在工厂和工厂中得到了应用。直到最近，直接出售给消费者的机器人系统最引人注目的例子仅限于娱乐系统（例如NAO [1]），自动琐事机器人[26]和社交远程呈现平台[27]。最初，网真机器人由带有交互式屏幕的移动基座组成。如今，随着技术的拟人化趋势，类似人的上半身开始取代那些简单的屏幕（例如Pepper [2]和R1 [3]），并拥有与人类相同的社交交流方式，例如身体姿势，手势，注视方向和面部表情。不幸的是，社交机器人大多被设计用来说话和做手势，并且在与人及其周围环境进行物理交互时功能有限。