In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates...
— We present an approach that builds upon previous developments in unmanned air vehicles and climbing robots and seeks to emulate the capabilities of bats, insects and certain bi...
Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T. Asbeck, Mark R. C...
In this study, we analyzed people's conceptions of AIBO, a robotic pet, through their spontaneous postings in online AIBO discussion forums. Results showed that AIBO psycholo...
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Batya Friedman, Jennifer Hagman
Designing intelligent products, systems and related services require the designers to be able to integrate technology in their designs. Among other skills, programming is the key f...
– In this paper, we present a hierarchical methodology that learns new walking gaits autonomously while operating in an uncharted environment, such as on the Mars planetary surfa...