A
robot apparatus which, by exploiting
limited resources highly efficiently, is capable of making expressions matched to the motion or to complex variegated feeling or
instinct states, representing the crucial information in achieving smooth communication with the
human being, is disclosed. A method of expression by the
robot apparatus is also disclosed. The
robot apparatus expresses plural states, such as emotional states or the
processing states of perceptual recognition, by a light radiating device loaded at a location of the head part of the
humanoid robot apparatus walking on two legs. The light radiating device includes e.g. the color
hue, saturation and patterns of
light emission as expressive units represented independently of one another. A plural number of orthogonal states, that is, the emotional states and the states of perceptual recognition, are expressed simultaneously, using a plural number of the orthogonal representations of the light radiating device correlated by a unit for correlating plural reciprocally orthogonal states, derived from the own inner states or external stimuli, with at least one expressive unit.