A web robot is a program that downloads and stores web pages. Implementation issues of web robots have been studied widely and various web statistics are reported in the literature...
Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
A robot's head is important both for directional sensors and, in human-directed robotics, as the single most visible interaction interface. However, designing a robot's h...
Personal robots for human entertainment form a new class of computer-based entertainment that is beginning to become commercially and computationally practical. We expect a princi...
Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects and effects. They play an important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address the p...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...