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RAS
2000
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13 years 10 months ago
Cooperative transport by ants and robots
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...
C. Ronald Kube, Eric Bonabeau
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics
— 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...
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
"I care about him as a pal": conceptions of robotic pets in online AIBO discussion forums
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
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
AdMoVeo: A Robotic Platform for Teaching Creative Programming to Designers
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...
Sjriek Alers, Jun Hu
SMC
2007
IEEE
125views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
A hierarchical strategy for learning of robot walking strategies in natural terrain environments
– 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...
Ayanna M. Howard, Lonnie T. Parker