We use the Cargo Cult metaphor to discuss visions, methods and communication of robot research. Essentially cargo cult involves performing of imitative rituals that are conducted ...
Ylva Fernaeus, Mattias Jacobsson, Sara Ljungblad, ...
In this paper we present a robotic head MIRA (Multimodal Interactive Robot Agent) which has been developed for studying the learning of human robot interaction and improving our u...
This article reports on a user study conducted to asses the credibility of a humanoid robot. The study set-up was based on the "Monty Hall Problem". Overall 13 people be...
Astrid Weiss, Roland Buchner, Thomas Scherndl, Man...
d a human. The meta proto-symbols are a little more abstract analogy of the proto-symbols and recognize/generate the relationship of the two. A hypothesis is then proposed as the p...
— This paper describes a robotic system that learns visual models of symmetric objects autonomously. Our robot learns by physically interacting with an object using its end effec...