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在本研究项目中，提出并评估了机器狗的步行康复训练。在动物辅助治疗中使用机器人代替动物，克服了感染、喂养和排泄、虐待动物等问题。患者使用加速度传感器、触摸面板或重心传感器来操作机器人。使用这些人机界面设备，可以使用信息通信技术轻松实现诸如感知、记录和处理人类状况等新功能。该提案的一个关键方面是在康复训练等辅助技术中行动者和客体角色的颠倒。患者自己操作机器人，由此产生的自我效能感应该有助于延长康复锻炼。在养老院进行的初步实验支持了这一预测，并表明需要后续项目进行进一步的详细调查。

In this research project, walking rehabilitation exercise using a robotic dog is proposed and evaluated. Using a robot instead of an animal in animal assisted therapy overcomes the problems of infection, feeding and excretion, animal abuse, and the like. Patients operate the robot using an acceleration force sensor, a touch panel, or a center of gravity sensor. Use of these human interface devices allows new functions such as sensing, recording, and processing of human conditions to be easily achieved using information communications technology. One of the key aspects of this proposal is the reversal of the roles of actor and object in assistive technology such as rehabilitation exercises. Patients operate the robot by themselves and the consequent feeling of self-efficacy should help to prolong the rehabilitation exercise. Preliminary experiments conducted at a nursing home supported this prediction and show the need of successive project for further detailed investigation.