Patent ID: 7447564

Claim:
A robot including a moving mechanism for causing the robot to move freely, comprising: a communication section which wirelessly connects to a communication line; a detection section which detects a plurality of requests, provided by a user, via an input device upon occurrence of an event; a storing section which stores a map information providing a floor layout, a user location table providing a location of the user for each time zone, a reporting table providing telephone numbers and messages; a microphone; a voice recognition section which recognizes that the robot is called based on a voice received by the microphone; a direction assuming section which assumes the direction of the voice detected by the microphone in response to the voice recognition section recognizing that the robot is called; a clock; a movement control section which controls, when the direction assumed by the direction assuming section is the direction of a door, the moving mechanism so as to move the robot to a location provided in the user location table by referring to the map information and the user location table stored in the storing section as well as referring to the clock; and a telephone control section which causes the communication section to dial one of the telephone numbers provided in the reporting table stored in the storing section in response to the detection section detecting the request provided by the user when the robot arrives at the location, and then delivers the associated message provided in the reporting table stored in the storing section as a voice message to a receiver when the receiver responds.