— Mobile robots do not adequately represent the objects in their environment; this weakness hinders a robot’s ability to utilize past experience. In this paper, we describe a s...
Abstract. Reservoir Computing (RC) uses a randomly created recurrent neural network where only a linear readout layer is trained. In this work, RC is used for detecting complex eve...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Xavier Dutoi...
Rescue robotics is an important steppingstone in the scientific challenge to create autonomous systems. There is a significant market for rescue robots, which has unique features ...
Using Asimov's "Bicentennial Man" as a springboard, a number of metaethical issues concerning the emerging field of Machine Ethics are discussed. Although the ultim...
— In order to be truly autonomous, robots that operate in natural, populated environments must have the ability to create a model of these unpredictable dynamic environments and ...