— The uncanny valley theory proposed by Mori in 1970 has been a hot topic in human robot interaction research, in particular since the development of increasingly human-like andr...
Christoph Bartneck, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishigu...
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
— The creation of a robot capable of navigating in unknown urban environments without the use of GPS data or prior map knowledge is envisioned in the Autonomous City Explorer (AC...
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, ...
This paper investigates the potential usefulness of viewing the system of human, robot, and environment as an “information pipeline” from environment to user and back again. I...