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AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Synthetic Minds
This paper discusses conditions under which some of the “higher level” mental concepts applicable to human beings might also be applicable to artificial agents. The key idea ...
Aaron Sloman
ROBOTICA
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
The Weston wheelchair mounted assistive robot - the design story
Robotic technology can be used in several ways to benefit people with disabilities. This paper describes the mounting of a robotic arm to a powered wheelchair to assist disabled u...
Michael Hillman, Karen Hagan, Sean Hagan, Jill Jep...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
77views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Opening the Dialog: Robotics and the Internet
Abstract— Inter-component communication has received considerable attention by robotic software architects as various frameworks and toolkits have matured. While the resulting pl...
Anthony Cowley, Hwa-Chow Oliver Hsu, Camillo J. Ta...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
110views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 12 days ago
Using Spatial Language in a Human-Robot Dialog
In conversation, people often use spatial relationships to describe their environment, e.g., “There is a desk in front of me and a doorway behind it”, and to issue directives,...
Marjorie Skubic, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schul...
IROS
2007
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a novel safety norm for domestic robotics
— Safety is a critical success factor for consumer acceptance of domestic robotic products. Some researchers have adopted the Head Injury Criterion (HIC) as absolute safety norm....
Martin Wassink, Stefano Stramigioli