This article investigates fundamental issues in scaling autonomous personal robots towards open-ended sets of everyday manipulation tasks which involve high complexity and vague j...
Being able to detect and recognize human activities is important for making personal assistant robots useful in performing assistive tasks. The challenge is to develop a system th...
Jaeyong Sung, Colin Ponce, Bart Selman, Ashutosh S...
In speech interfaces users must be aware what can be done with the system – in other words, the system must provide information to help the users to know what to say. We have ad...
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Hartikainen, Markku Turun...
As robots enter the human environment and come in contact with inexperienced users, they need to be able to interact with users in a multi-modal fashion—keyboard and mouse are n...
Soshi Iba, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep K. Kh...
— Our long-term objective is to develop robots that engage in natural language-mediated cooperative tasks with humans. To support this goal, we are developing an amodal represent...