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IWC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby
AMS
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
A Unified Robotic Software Architecture for Service Robotics and Networks of Smart Sensors
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel architecture for the programming of multi-modal service robots and networked sensors. The presented software framework eases the development o...
Daniel Westhoff, Jianwei Zhang
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Impedance Control of the Hydraulic Shoulder A 3-DOF Parallel Manipulator
– In this paper, a model-based impedance control strategy is developed for a 3 DOF parallel manipulator to manage the interaction of the robot with the environment. Kinematic and...
H. Sadjadian, H. D. Taghirad
IUI
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Where to look: a study of human-robot engagement
This paper reports on a study of human subjects with a robot designed to mimic human conversational gaze behavior in collaborative conversation. The robot and the human subject to...
Candace L. Sidner, Cory D. Kidd, Christopher Lee, ...
JIPS
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Comparative Study on the Educational Use of Home Robots for Children
: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), based on already well-researched Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), has been under vigorous scrutiny since recent developments in robot technology. ...
Jeonghye Han, Miheon Jo, Vicki Jones, Jun H. Jo