Soft robotics has emerged as a versatile field with applications across various domains, from healthcare to industrial automation, and more recently, art and interactive installations. The inherent flexibility, adaptability, and safety of soft robots make them ideal for applications that require delicate, organic, and lifelike movement, allowing for immersive and responsive interactions. This study explores the intersection of human emotions, soft robotics, and art to establish and create new forms of human emotion-mediated soft robotic art. In this paper, we introduce two soft embodiments: a soft character and a soft flower as an art display that dynamically responds to brain signals based on alpha waves, reflecting different emotion levels. We present how human emotions can be measured as alpha waves based on brain/EEG signals, how we map the alpha waves to the dynamic movements of the two soft embodiments, and demonstrate our proposed concept using experiments. The findings of this study highlight how soft robotics can embody human emotional states, offering a new medium for insightful artistic expression and interaction, and demonstrating how art displays can be embodied.

翻译：软体机器人已发展成为一个多用途领域，其应用涵盖从医疗保健到工业自动化等多个领域，最近更延伸至艺术与互动装置领域。软体机器人固有的柔韧性、适应性和安全性使其成为需要精细、有机且逼真运动的理想选择，从而实现沉浸式响应交互。本研究探索人类情感、软体机器人与艺术的交叉领域，旨在建立并创造新型的人类情感介导软体机器人艺术形式。本文介绍了两种软体实体：作为艺术展示的软体角色与软体花朵，它们能基于反映不同情绪水平的α脑电波对大脑信号作出动态响应。我们阐述了如何通过脑电/EEG信号将人类情感量化为α波，如何将α波映射到两种软体实体的动态运动，并通过实验验证了所提出的概念。本研究结果凸显了软体机器人如何具象化人类情感状态，为富有洞察力的艺术表达与交互提供了新媒介，并展示了艺术展示装置实现具身化的可能路径。