Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...
The growing presence of household robots in inhabited environments arises the need for new robot task planning techniques. These techniques should take into consideration not only...
Marcello Cirillo, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffio...
This article introduces Pyro, an open source python robotics toolkit for exploring topics in AI and robotics. nt key abstractions that allow Pyro controllers to run unchanged on a...
Douglas S. Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, Holly...