In the field of service robotics, robots serve and assist human beings. It is natural for humans to directly interact with the robot via tactile interfaces. This paper introduces...
— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...
Human-robot interaction (HRI) for mobile robots is still in its infancy. Most user interactions with robots have been limited to teleoperation capabilities where the most common i...
As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants ...
Victoria Groom, Leila Takayama, Paloma Ochi, Cliff...
This paper reports our novel approach to developing a social robot. Such a robot reads human relationships from their physical behavior. We have developed an interactive humanoid r...