Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.

Abstract: A soup supplying apparatus includes: a vessel that accommodates a soup and has an arc-shaped inner periphery and an upper opening formed at one end of the inner periphery; a ladle mechanism that ladles up the soup accommodated in the vessel by slidably moving along the inner periphery towards the upper opening and pours the soup out from the vessel through the upper opening; a driving device that supplies a driving force to the ladle mechanism; and a controller that controls the driving device. The controller controls the driving device to move the ladle mechanism to reciprocatively slide between predetermined positions on the inner periphery of the vessel when in a mode of not pouring out the soup, and controls the driving device to vary speed of the movement of the ladle mechanism in accordance with a kind of the soup accommodated in the vessel.