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ACMIDC
2010
15 years 5 months ago
How do you play with a robotic toy animal?: a long-term study of Pleo
Pleo is one of the more advanced interactive toys currently available for the home market, taking the form of a robotic dinosaur. We present an exploratory study of how it was int...
Ylva Fernaeus, Maria Håkansson, Mattias Jaco...
NIME
2005
Springer
151views Music» more  NIME 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
A Large-Scale Networked Robotic Musical Instrument Installation
This paper describes an installation created by LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) in January, 2005. The installation included over 30 robotic musical instruments a...
Eric Singer
IROS
2008
IEEE
155views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Performance evaluation of a vertical line descriptor for omnidirectional images
— In robotics, vertical lines have been always very useful for autonomous robot localization and navigation in structured environments. This paper presents a robust method for ma...
Davide Scaramuzza, Cédric Pradalier, Roland...
HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Interactive humanoid robots for a science museum
This paper reports on a field trial with interactive humanoid robots at a science museum where visitors are encouraged to study and develop an interest in science. In the trial, ea...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro,...
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JETAI
2000
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15 years 3 months ago
Free will - even for robots
Human free will is a product of evolution and contributes to the success of the human animal. Useful robots will also require free will of a similar kind, and we will have to desi...
John McCarthy