Autonomous mobile robots need good models of their environment, sensors and actuators to navigate reliably and efficiently. While this information can be supplied by humans, or le...
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
– Biped walking is one of the most graceful movements observed in humans. Today’s humanoid robots, despite their undeniably impressive performance, are still a long way from th...
Kojiro Matsushita, Max Lungarella, Chandana Paul, ...
Abstract— Fire brigades and special agencies are often demanded to operate for search and aid of human lives in extremely dangerous scenarios. It is very important to first veri...
A major challenge in robotics and artificial intelligence lies in creating robots that are to cooperate with people in human-populated environments, e.g. for domestic assistance ...