Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy...
- In this paper, we seek to understand how leg muscles and tendons work mechanically during walking in order to motivate the design of efficient robotic legs. We hypothesize that a...
Using pre-recorded human motion and trajectory tracking, we can control the motion of a humanoid robot for free-space, upper body gestures. However, the number of degrees of freed...
Nancy S. Pollard, Jessica K. Hodgins, Marcia Riley...
— The ability for people to interact with robots and teach them new skills will be crucial to the successful application of robots in everyday human environments. In order to des...
— If robots are to succeed in novel tasks, they must be able to learn from humans. To improve such humanrobot interaction, a system is presented that provides dialog structure an...